Miscellaneous

At what age does the average person retire in high-income countries? How long is the average period of retirement? The OECD collects this information. Here's a trimmed down table with a selection of countries.

This article presents the Cost of Living Index by City Worldwide for 2023. These indices are historical and they are published periodically. It's a snapshot of the current indices at a specific point in time.

What matters is not the value of the education to the individual but the value of that education to society, and the best measure we have of the value to society of a person’s education is what society is willing to pay for the work that education enables the student to do.

Americans take note! A first class college education in other English speaking countries can be had for half the average cost of one in the U.S.. This infographic tells you where and how much you would pay. Take a look.

You will notice that the symbols @$$4$, @$, @$$, @$$$ and @$$$$ are appearing in all the recent articles posted on munKNEE.com as hyperlinks. They are not being clicked on that often, however, so this article shows what would have been accessed had that been done.

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Every week I surf the net on your behalf looking for the 10 most informative articles written by the best commentators/analysts out there which I then edit and abridge before posting to provide you with a faster, and easier read.

Canada and the United States are the world's largest trading partners. The U.S. accounts for about three-quarters of Canada's exports. Because of geography and the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are a number of products that the countries export to each other while at the same time importing from the other. [Take a look at the list. You might be very surprised.] Words: 712

Historically high gas prices in the United States have led to consumer complaints, political consternation and even some changes in tax policy, but a look at prices paid in countries around the world reveals that things could be a lot worse.

I notice that any article I post on my site regarding economic, financial and investing topics related to China get a lot of page views from Chinese readers suggesting that Chinese nationals are anxious to read what Western commentators have to say about their country. Here are some of those articles you might have missed.