S&P Futures are flat to higher this morning with the market’s attention on earnings reports. Tech stocks are showing positive action this morning as PANW delivered a solid beat last night. MDT beat, LOW also delivered a beat but cut its forward guidance. After the bell today TOL and KEYS will be releasing and tomorrow morning M. TGT, TJX & ADI are scheduled to report. PARA received a 4.3B bid from Edgar Bronfman. The EU plans to cut tariffs on TSLA’s China made EV’s to 9% from 20.8%. In Europe, stocks just gave up their earlier gains and are now slightly lower. Oil prices just reversed course and are now displaying gains on the day.
Category: Economics
Guard Your Card: Don’t Let Big Government Take Control
Senators Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall proposed harmful legislation that would alter the credit card routing system under the guise of “boosting competition.”
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Rocket engine explodes during test at UK spaceport
A rocket engine exploded during a test launch at Britain’s new spaceport in northern Scotland, officials said Tuesday, in a setback for the UK’s fledgling space sector. No one was injured in Monday evening’s incident at SaxaVord Spaceport on the remote island of Unst, said the operator, German rocket manufacturer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA). The company hopes […]
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Missing UK tech tycoon’s co-defendant killed in accident
Stephen Chamberlain, a co-defendant in the recent US trial involving missing UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, died following a weekend accident in eastern England, police confirmed on Tuesday. The accident, in which Chamberlain was hit by a car while reportedly jogging, happened on Saturday, just two days before Lynch and his teenage daughter went missing […]
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Biden at DNC: Trump Supporters ‘Can’t Think, Can’t Read Very Well’
President Joe Biden embraced divisive rhetoric during his speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday night when he said Trump supporters “can’t think, can’t read very well.”
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Denmark Is The World’s Best Country For Women
Denmark Is The World’s Best Country For Women
Metrics assessing women’s safety, inclusion, and access to justice vary greatly by country and region.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Julia Wendling ranked the top 10 nations for women, using the 2023 Women Peace and Security Index scores from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
Countries are given an index score out of 1.0 that is derived based on the following components:
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Inclusion: education, employment, financial inclusion, cell phone use, parliamentary representation
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Justice: absence of legal discrimination, access to justice, maternal mortality ratio, son bias
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Safety: intimate partner violence, community safety, political violence targeting women, and proximity to conflict
Which Are the Best Countries for Women?
All of the top 10 countries for women received index scores above 0.9, significantly higher than the global average of 0.65. Nine of them are located in Europe, with New Zealand (#10) representing the only regional outlier.
The highest-ranked country was Denmark, which scored particularly well across inclusion (such as financial inclusion and parliamentary representation) and justice (such as absence of legal discrimination and access to justice) metrics. Its Scandinavian peers—Sweden (#3) and Norway (#7)—followed closely behind.
Overall, the group of best countries for women feature low maternal mortality, high education rates, and a lack of political violence against women and proximity to conflict.
Other Takeaways
Canada (#17), the UK (#26), and the U.S. (#37) all rank relatively high but didn’t make the top 10 list. Lower rankings for parliamentary representation, maternal mortality, and community safety dragged the score for the U.S. down to lower than European counterparts.
If you found this interesting, check out this visualization that looks at the countries with the most gender-equal pay among OECD countries.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 08/20/2024 – 04:15
China’s competitiveness is driven by low taxation, not by industrial policy
Contrary to popular belief, China’s economy depends much less on central planning than in the past. China is strong in EV development, and the success is due not to government subsidies and direction but to plain good economics.
The Folly of Legislating against Unfairness
Legislating against unfairness in order to achieve “equal” outcomes is like legislating against the wind. While government has little control over outcomes, its predations can make those outcomes worse.
CNN’s Tapper: Dem Platform Lets Harris, ‘Stay Vague, Stay Unspecific’
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper stated that the Democratic Party’s platform is written in a way that “allows Vice President Harris to stay vague, stay unspecific.” While discussing the platform referring to a second Biden
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CNN’s Jennings: They Are Making Biden Give His Own Career Eulogy
Monday, during CNN’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, network contributor and Republican political consultant Scott Jennings dismissed the Democrats’ suggestion that President Joe Biden’s appearance was some sort of celebration.
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