It is now the second week of 2016 and many people are working (or struggling) to follow through on their New Year’s resolutions. Whether they have decided to run a marathon...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/things-we-do-economic-social-and-personal-costs-optimism
“My life has totally changed. Now I am earning money from the Internet and I come to know a lot of new things. Internet is really amazing.” - Male, from Madurai, India, ...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/online-outsourcing-global-job-opportunity-everyone
"The World By Income" [http://data.worldbank.org/maps2015] We’ve just released a working paper [http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25737491/world-banks-clas...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/classifying-countries-income-new-working-paper
Fifty-two years after Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” became the first country album to top the US pop album chart, and the crude complex is stuck in a vicious circle onc...
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/01/11/china-worries-petro-state-woes-and-dollar-rally-weigh-on-crude/
Media figures have credited House Speaker Paul Ryan with thrusting the supposedly "forgotten" issue of poverty into the 2016 Republican presidential race following his partici...
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/JpMJRaedAus/207893
The United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) publishes this notice to announce that the Director of the Census Bureau has determined the nee...
http://regulations.justia.com/regulations/fedreg/2016/01/11/2016-300.html
MSNBC's Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski squandered the opportunity to ask GOP presidential candidates and House Speaker Paul Ryan any questions r...
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/iTyW32nZndI/207897
PMI data point to weaker domestic and external demand in Q4 2015 The post Non-oil business sector in UAE grows at slowest pace in 40 months [http://ameinfo.com/finance-and-e...
Maureen Cavanagh was recently named President of the Vision Impact Institute [http://visionimpactinstitute.org/], currently supported by Essilor. The mission of the Vision Imp...
In the latest Schiff Report, Peter Schiff looks back at the first week of the new year, examining the performance of the US and Chinese stock markets, the price of gold, and a...
Global stock markets have been tumbling, China's economic growth appears to be slowing faster than expected and many key world economies are struggling.But new data show the U...
http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-jobs-report-20160108-story.html
Mortgage rates moved lower today, despite an exceptionally strong jobs report–something that typically sends rates screaming higher. Recently, however, we’ve seen a discon...