The World Economic Forum has just published the latest Global Competitiveness Report, covering 142 economies worldwide and ranking each according to the Global Competitiveness Index. The first GPR was released in 1979, and aims to assess the ability of the world’s countries to provide their citizens with prosperity and a high quality of life. The [...]

Technology has been a vastly positive thing for the human race. The major leaps right from the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, the computer and so on have helped us become the tech hungry race we are now. It has shaped our history as well, and enabled us to live the global [...]

There is no doubt that Americans need jobs right now, and more politicians are saying that the way to create more jobs is to continue to push the “go-green” agenda.  But with the expensive price tag of green technology can these companies provide enough jobs for those out of work right now? There are currently [...]

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, the Pentagon and nearly the White House.  On September 9, New York police increased security, including vehicle checkpoints and armed guards stood near the Office of Emergency Management after authorities received a “credible” threat that terrorists may strike on [...]

One of the country’s largest unions, the United Auto Workers, is bargaining a new contract with U.S. automakers.  The new contract seeks a record-breaking signing bonus of $10,000.  That’s more than three times higher than the amount workers received to endorse the current contract. The union’s bargainers are asking for the increased signing bonus and [...]

After months of debate and days of intense negotiations, the United States House Judiciary Committee has preliminarily approved the ISP Data Retention Bill that will require internet service providers (ISPs) to save their customers’ data for 12 months. This bill was developed to curb child pornography and other illegal material on the internet, but there [...]

In the white sandy dunes of New Mexico there is a bustling. A plan has been launched to build a town somewhere near Albuquerque or Las Cruces, Though the location is not yet set, the population of this new town is: Zero.   The new 20-square-mile town is not planned for residence, but rather wires, [...]

Amy Winehouse is the latest star to have their life tragically cut short. Although people immediately associated her with drink and drugs, the autopsy said there were no traces of illegal substances in her system, which goes down against the hard critics that slandered her in the press. The loss of Amy was a tragic [...]

Solyndra is just one of the latest solar companies to get beaten down by the bad economy in the United States.   But the competition from the Chinese solar companies and their low production costs are the final blow that did them in.    Solyndra is filing for Chapter 11, even after getting a federal loan guarantee [...]

According to television, movies, magazines and stereotypes everywhere, while women just love shopping for clothes, men can’t stand it. Of course, this isn’t necessarily reflected in the real world. A huge number of women hate the environment of shopping malls and clothes shops – the awkwardness of changing rooms, walking miles and still not finding [...]