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Prices of different vices around the world
Chose the wrong country for my vices.
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posted 11 May, 2013
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Oooh, sick Eurozone burn.
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posted 14 April, 2013
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On the verge of collapse, the city of Detroit is now run by an emergency financial manager
The governor of Michigan and the mayor of Detroit both agree it’s a last ditch effort, but with the city in decay and tens of billions of dollars in debt, the city is now under the control of an unelected emergency financial manager, whose decisions override any by the elected mayor or city council. Yes, in order for Detroit to survive at all, it’s now being run by a lawyer-czar. But it could be Detroit’s last hope.
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posted 15 March, 2013
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A stunning visual representation of wealth inequality in America
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
Submitted by darkcambria
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posted 04 March, 2013
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Why should taxpayers pay banks $83 billion a year to stay afloat?
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, banks now have been incentivized to become even bigger, knowing that the larger they are and the more they have their tentacles into every tiny aspect of everyone’s lives, the more they fall into the “too big to fail” category, making them immune from prosecution and ensuring a steady stream of government subsidies to keep them profitable and healthy.
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posted 26 February, 2013
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The nation of Zimbabwe only has about $200 left in the bank
After years of out of control hyperinflation, at the end of last month, the nation of Zimbabwe announced it only had $217 to its name. By this point, what with salaries and normal expenditures, that’s probably more like negative a billion Zimbabwe dollars.
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posted 08 February, 2013
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Fucking poor people.
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posted 16 December, 2012
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US government is seriously thinking about dropping the paper dollar permanently
Even though the US government has tried and tried for decades to get people to accept a $1 coin, it’s never caught on. But the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that by permanently replacing the paper dollar with a coin, the government could save $4.4 billion over 30 years.
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posted 02 December, 2012
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Bhutan measures its own success through national happiness, not wealth
Almost every nation on Earth measures itself and against each other by wealth and by gross domestic product (GDP). Except for Bhutan. The tiny Himalayan hamlet only opened its borders in 1970 and in 1971, the Buddhist nation started a system where it measures its own success not by dollars in the bank, but by the smiles on people’s faces. As goofy as that may seem, it’s a program that has done wonders for the country, and now the UN wants to try and duplicate the model around the world where possible.
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posted 01 December, 2012
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TED talk of the day: The Power of the Black Market Economy
Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable “System D,” the world’s unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it’s an economy of underappreciated power and scope.
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posted 10 September, 2012
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Good news: US unemployment falls Bad news: Because more people have stopped looking for work
In a number that’s going to be wildly spun by both sides, new economic reports indicate that US unemployment fell to 8.1%, but that seems to be mainly due to hundreds of thousands of people having dropped out of the job hunt. Oops.
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posted 07 September, 2012
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Why are Millennials the cheapest generation?
Sure, the economy’s still bad, and a lot of people in Europe and America are pinching pennies and watching purchases, but corporations have tried and tried and tried and failed to market cars, houses and credit cards to the young adults sometimes called the Millennials, between 18 and 25. But they just aren’t buying it.
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posted 23 August, 2012
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$21 trillion has been stashed in tax havens by 0.001% of the world’s population
When you’re super rich, it’s good to stay as super rich as possible by stashing all your cash in offshore tax havens. Who wants to pay taxes that are just going to go towards building bridges and schools for poor people, when you have more yachts to buy? The Tax Justice Network’s Estimating the Price of Offshore Revisted report says that over $21 trillion has been squirrelled away in offshore tax-havens by 90,000 super-rich tax-cheats (0.001% of the world’s population)
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posted 23 July, 2012
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LIBOR: There is an international banking conspiracies, and it’s run by dumbasses
Lately, the news news and internet news have picked up on LIBOR, the international banking interest rates standard and how’s it’s set by a group of chaps in London to suit their own whims. There is in fact an international banking conspiracy, but it’s not run by Bond villains or Lex Luthor, trying to build some gigantic sun laser… it’s run by a small group of old tweed jacket lunch buddies in London who are just trying to be cool around each other.
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posted 19 July, 2012
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Politics Suck: Beholden to JP Morgan
If anyone doesn’t think that corporations like JP Morgan don’t completely own the Republican party, watch this. I am quite sure they completely own Democrats, too. Fuck.
