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Countries Ranked On Global Trade Openness
A new release from the International Chamber of Commerce ranked countries based on their openness to foreign trade, or their Open Markets Index (OMI). Nations were graded on 4 broad...
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Study Finds Pumping Kids With Ritalin Maybe Not Such A Good Idea Afterall
A new study considers alternative effects of ADHD medications on young children diagnosed with ADHD. The researchers find that in many cases the ingesting of prescription drugs such as Ritalin...
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Tesla Supercharger Network Expands To Become Almost Feasible
Love or hate the stock and its recent crazy run, it’s hard not to admire Elon Musk and all the effort going into Tesla (not to mention SolarCity and Space-X)....
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The U.N. Suggests You Eat More Insects
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has a huge new report outlining the many advantages of eating insects. The below map from the paper shows the recorded number of edible...
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More Roads Mean More Oil Consumption
A note from Morgan Stanley draws attention to the correlation between oil consumption per capita and miles of roads per capita in a nation. Canada has a very high miles...
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The Enormous Education Gap Of US Immigrants
In a recent memo to Paul Ryan, the CBO released some very interesting updated immigration figures for 2012. The most striking statistic in the release is the varying educational attainment...
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A Map Of Religion In North America
The below map shows the religious affiliations (on average) of counties in the U.S. and Canada. The red scale is Catholic, the blue scale Protestant, the green scale No Religion,...
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Who Pays More Taxes And Who Is Happy About It
The New York Times created this interesting quadrant chart of what the effective tax rate is in 54 nations and the happiness level of that nation’s citizens. The chart tells...
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US Ranks Near The Bottom Of Developed Countries In Child Well-Being
UNICEF has recently released an incredibly interesting report examining child well-being in 29 of the world’s most advanced economies. I’ll cover some highlights here, but I do recommend reading the...
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Why PhD Candidates Immigrate To The US, And Why They Don’t
A new paper by Paula Stephan, Chiara Franzoni, and Giuseppe Scellato considers why foreign-born PhD candidates choose to, or not to, immigrate to certain nations for their study. Contrary to what...
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Household Moving Migration Patterns In The U.S. And Canada
Moving company Atlas Van Lines provides an overview of household moving migration patterns in the U.S. and in Canada. People are still flooding into D.C. it seems.
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Peculiarities Of Unemployment Statistics
Both Canada and the United States released employment data this morning. In Canada, there were 52,000 new jobs, and the unemployment rate rose to 7.4%. In the United States, which...
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Tyler Cowen Discusses The State Of The Economy
The always brilliant Tyler Cowen recently spoke with Steve Paikin of TVO of Canada. In the interview, Cowen discusses the economy, Marginal Revolution, , , MR University, and politics, among...
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Florida Ice and Farm Co. Rumored To Buy North American Breweries From KPS Capital Partners
A few weeks back Reuters released a report that KPS Capital Partners, LP had to sell its holding in North American Breweries (valued around $400 million and American’s largest owned brewer), which...
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Canada Joins Team Evil
Canada’s decision last week to cut diplomatic ties with Iran has been met with a mixture of surprise and dismay in some quarters; and elation in others. Even the Toronto...
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Value Associated To Polar Bears In Canada
Eco Ressources, a group of Canadian environmental consultants, released a paper last year (via Kiera Butler and @jmooallem) titled “Evidence of the Socio-Economic Importance of Polar Bears for Canada” in which they attempt to...
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World Manufacturing Figures Suggest Slow Economic Rebound
A new report from Stéfane Marion, Chief Economist and Strategist at National Bank Financial Markets (NBF), a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, looks at manufacturing PMI’s in the G20...
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Mapping The Financial Blogosphere
Greetings good folks! What follows is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and I was especially encouraged to do after the ridiculous success of my satirical...
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The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Crash Course
It’s important for Americans to note that Canada has several options for the future of its oil production, and not all of them involve the U.S. Canada would prefer the...
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U.S. Pain At The Pump Pales In Comparison To The Rest Of The World
We can’t stop hearing about rising gas prices and the natural resources that could potentially be tapped to reduce them. Much of it has shown to be speculation at best,...
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Like Magic, Bernanke Bails Out Europe While Claiming Not To
It was laughable when Bernanke took a game plan from Goldman when dealing with US Senators and Congressmen alike, which is to straight out lie. The Chairsatan spoke as early...
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Discussions Of Long-Run Deficits Should Begin With Health Care Costs
So much deficit talk and so little of it that matters from our leading politicians. Our health care problem is by no means an easy fix, but this graphic from the...
