The latter expresses a country's average level of prices based on a typical basket of consumer goods and services. The values shown here refer to the year-on-year change in this index measure, expressed in percent. Read more Average inflation rate from 1993 to 2030 in Ukraine ...
Although a median-income US family of four with employer- based health insurance saw its gross annual income increase from $76,000 in 1999 to $99,000 in 2009 (in current dollars), this gain was largely offset by increased spending to pay for health care. Monthly spending increases occurred...
Only wage earners are counted – not the self-employed or people on benefits. In some countries, the data is incomplete – in South Africa, for example; it leaves out public sector workers and agricultural workers, while in Uganda, it covers only the manufacturing sector. To see gross versus...
I’ll leave the conspiracies to conspiracists, but I find it interesting that with the Fed bond buying tapering coincides with civil unrest in Southeast Asia, Ukraine, Middle East and parts of Africa and the cut in Argentina’s ratings. It seems all these factors would help encourage bond ...