Led by Chinese economic growth and other emerging markets, the center of economic gravity is moving eastward from the developed world to Asia.
Whereas natural disaster preparation can save lives, it might have too high an opportunity cost to make sense or be a ShakeAlert that has been proven.
Like athletes use music before competing, so too can we energize our human capital at work with music that empowers us physiologically and psychologically.
In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.
The 2014 Social Security Trustees Report says that after we deplete the remains of the program's trust funds in 2033, payroll taxes will not provide all promised benefits.
The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.
With Argentina again defaulting on her sovereign debt, she is violating the sanctity of contracts and lessened her borrowing ability at home and globally.
With more austerity resistance to government spending cutbacks, Greece could again be heading for a sovereign debt default and a bailout.
Seemingly just a statistic, how we calculate the GDP and how it is used can be controversial and affect the lives of millions of people.
The U.S. has had an economic recovery from the Great Recession with sluggish GDP growth, a worrisome output gap and slowly diminishing unemployment.












