How come the USA is underrated?

[Shannow]

so in your supply and demand world tempest, isn't excess of supply the leader of low prices ?

Tightening of supply and prices go up ?

Why on Earth would wages be any different WRT unemployment ?

And why do (private) reserve banks remove capital from the system whenever drop in unemployment threatens wage rises ?

 

[Dave Hess]

Quote:
For what its worth,
Well, the latest UN rankings are out. Here are the best places in the world to live:

1 Norway
2 Australia
3 Iceland
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Netherlands
7 Sweden
8 France
9 Switzerland
10 Japan

The US was 13th. Not saying that we would all agree that the criteria are what we consider the best.


I doubt this is correct, the USA will always be # 1
Thank God sooooo many people voted for change, 4 more years of change and things will be just peachy.

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: silverrat
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
But the USA has a large ~10% population of undocumented immigrants. And a ~15% of African Americans, which has a lot of issues with crime, poverty etc. I think Canada does a better job of documenting immigrants so the numbers are skewed.


Your stats are wrong. There are approx 12 million undocumented in the US. With a US Pop of over 309 million, that's more like 4%. Canada has a high estimate of 120,000 illegals from a population of 34 million. Not much of a difference in ratio.


If they are undocumented then who knows just how many illegals are in the US with are porous border? This is getting ridiculous. Some estimates put it at 30 million. My point wasn't about immigrants but that the US has huge populations of nonEuropeans FWIW. Anyone that has been to US cities knows how "diverse" they are regardless if they are illegal, documented or undocumented. Besides, when you have such a large population there's bound to be more problems an issues than a smaller population regardless of where they are from.