The media are full of stories about how Americans are putting on weight and public health officials keep telling them to exercise more and slim down. But most Americans seem content to stay on the couch.
Being overweight or obese is very clearly tied to economics.
The cost of consuming
Only one in every 10 first-year American law students in 1970 was a woman. But women are expected to be the majority of students entering law schools this fall. The growth in women lawyers is expected to help propel more women into leadership positions in politics and business.
Last Autumn,
All but the most die-hard protectionists agree that capital should be allowed to flow freely across national boundaries, the better to nourish development in poor and advanced countries alike. But some oddball regimes, such as Malaysia’s, continue to claim their economies prosper best behind a wall of capital controls.
The U.S.
Canada’s controversial firearms registry requires all gun owners to be licensed by January 2001, and all firearms registered by January 2003.
However, the registry has experienced huge cost overruns and has negative consequences for all Canadians’ individual freedoms, says a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute.
The federal government claimed it
The decision by the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration to scrap the enormously expensive ergonomics rule proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration left labour union leaders sputtering. But many experts applauded the move citing the fact that employers find it in their own interest to constantly
An eight-year, multimillion pound campaign to reduce hospital waiting lists in the Republic of Ireland’s public health service has been largely unsuccessful, reports the British Medical Journal. Although lists overall have shown a small decline, many patients are waiting longer now than four or five years ago.
Waiting lists are a
It is a great honour for me to receive this award from the Free Market Foundation, an institution renowned for promoting socio-economic development and for fostering free market enterprise in developing economies. I am grateful for their recognition of the achievements of my country during my tenure of office. But
The Internet has fostered trade among nations with particular benefits to small suppliers and customers within advanced countries and also in developing countries, by helping them find each other online. In a new study, Caroline Freund of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and Diana Weinhold of the London School
Blacks are more likely than whites to think that public schools are only getting worse — and more likely than whites to support vouchers, which would use public funds to educate their children in private, parochial or public schools of their choice.
A decade ago, only a handful of black
While some people are treating the American share market ups and downs like a roller coaster ride (with its attendant terror) other researchers are confident the market will improve in the next 12 months 96.7 percent confident. That’s because 96.7 percent of the time, shares have done better than
