Finance

According to the National Bank of Canada the risk of global stagflation is surfacing due to rising oil prices, soaring food costs, and slow economic growth which threatens to undermine the global recovery.

Asset price inflation is the cause of wealth disparity between between the top 1% and the bottom 50%. The more they have, the more they get. The bottom 50% don’t have anything and need not apply...

Taxes provide 50% or more of government funds in almost every country in the world and using a tax-to-GDP ratio is one of the more useful ways to compare tax systems around the world and this article does just that.

Ponzi schemes are a type of financial fraud that lures investors by promising abnormally high returns. To help you learn more about these sophisticated crimes, this infographic examines some of the biggest Ponzi schemes in modern history. The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, an Italian who became infamous in the 1920s for claiming he could double his clients’ money within …

To answer the question "How much can people learn about me by simply Googling me?" just Google yourself, or as some people say, complete your own "vanity search". You may be amazed - and perhaps even dismayed - at what is out there about you! Why should you care? Because friends, relatives, employers, recruiters, hiring managers, and even strangers may be searching for information about you on the web so shouldn't you better control what people can learn about you online?

Most things we think about password security are completely wrong as I found out when I tested one of my passwords against Silent Circle's crypto analysis tool. Words: 487

Online privacy is becoming more important...Below are five different tools and services that...you can set up...in 5 minutes. Each of them will go a long way in securing your privacy online. Words: 460

In this article I explain why you should seriously consider internationalizing your domain name, teach you some basic terms so that you can understand how to choose the jurisdiction of your domain name (as well as make sure that your personal or business information is not leaked out into the public domain) and tell you how to do it. Read on!

There is a large degree of variance in the quality of public pension plans around the world and today's infographic, using 2021 data from Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, compares retirement income systems worldwide.

"Equations definitely CAN be dull, and they CAN seem complicated...but you CAN appreciate the beauty and importance of equations without knowing how to solve them.....[My] intention was to locate them in their cultural and human context, and pull back the veil on their hidden effects on history. Equations are a vital part of our culture. The stories behind them --- the people who discovered/invented them and the periods in which they lived --- are fascinating" and some are particularly relevant to anybody affected by the current financial crisis. [Let's take a look.] Words: 2072