China has increasingly poured billions of dollars of foreign direct investment capital into Africa..and is now invested in 46 of 54 African countries, mainly with a focus on metals, energy, and infrastructure...Investments in 2015 up until June have totaled $17.8 billion, and are on pace to reach $42 billion by the end of this year. The infographic below will help you visualize China's investment in China.
Read More »Corruption Perceptions Index: How Does Your Country Score?
Each year we score countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be by capturing the informed views of analysts, business people and experts in countries around the world. The resultant Corruption Perceptions Index sends a powerful message and governments have been forced to take notice and act. How does your country score?
Read More »Who Is Going to Pull Global Economy Out of Its Funk?
Who is going to pull the global economy out of its funk? No one knows, but it’s not going to be China – regardless of how many more times the central bank is going to tweak its policies and cut interest rates. That’s what China’s trade fiasco is saying.
Read More »A Complete Economic & Societal Breakdown Awaits This MAJOR Oil Exporting Country
There have been reports of Westerners eating at a decent restaurant, a hotel room, and hiring a prostitute all for under $5US. In other words, the Venezuelan economy has utterly ceased to function, except through black market transactions involving dollars.
Read More »Is Canada About to Slide From Recession Into An Outright Depression? (+2K Views)
Canada's economy is suffering badly and could well be sliding from its current state of recession into outright depression due to the following 6 factors:
Read More »Potential Great Economic Change Coming – Here’s Why (+3K Views)
We believe, more than ever, in the inevitability of an economic collapse sometime around October as a number of black swans on the wing head our way. Let me explain why that is likely the case.
Read More »A Spot-on Assessment Of Our Sorry Economic Situation
Future business activity will reflect the over-indebted state of the U.S. economy and the world & the inability of the Federal Reserve to initiate policies to promote growth in this environment. If that’s not a pithy, spot-on summary of our sorry situation, I don’t know what is! The details are provided within.
Read More »How Will Your Country Fare In Next 15 Years? Take A Look
Today’s infographic looks at where GDP growth will come from in the next 15 and 30 years...(the Asia-Pacific region, which currently makes up only 4.8% of the world’s middle-class spending, will balloon to become the biggest spender by far in 2030 at 32.6%, while North America, by comparison, will only increase from 5.5% to 5.8% during that period) and population and life expectancy projections for 32 countries. What does the future hold for your country?
Read More »From A Gold Perspective Our Economy Is Not A Pretty Sight (2K Views)
This article looks at U.S. GDP, the federal minimum wage, the average hourly wage and the adjusted monetary base in terms of the price of gold. It reveals what the situation really looks like - and it is not a pretty sight.
Read More »A Country’s GDP Keeps Changing Relative to Others – Take a Look
A lot has happened to the global economy over the last 35 years. The forces of economic liberalization, globalization, and the rise of the multinational corporation have all left their mark...[Check out the dynamic Voronoi diagram below showing how] the GDP (total market value of all goods and services produced in a country for a given time period) of each of the world's largest countries have grown or contracted relative to others from 1980 to 2015.
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