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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: shades who wrote (42851)12/15/2005 2:02:01 PM
From: 8bits  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
" Can my sisters drive their hummers for as cheap over there taking my nieces to the soccer games?

nationmaster.com

No it doesn't look like it :("

Well heck looks we should pack our bags and move to Turkmenistan, Iraq, or Iran by that measure. As you may know the Swiss have excellent public transportation, leave the Hummer at home (or don't even buy one).

cia.gov

Unemployment rate:
3.4% (2004 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
0.9% (2004 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 4.39 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.86 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.39 years
male: 77.58 years
female: 83.36 years (2005 est.)

USA:

Infant mortality rate:
total: 6.5 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 7.17 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 5.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.71 years
male: 74.89 years
female: 80.67 years (2005 est.)

Unemployment rate:
5.5% (2004 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2004 est.)

RE: Soviet military. Well the Chinese and North Koreans believe the US lost the Korean War. The Vietnam War is frequently described as being lost by the US. Those were issues of political will not military prowess. Up until the collapse of the Soivet Union from economic and politcal dynamics, the Soviet forces were quite formidable.
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