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Health Care Intelligence Failure?

…nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden, Part 3 discusses what is received in the form…

Waiting for Health Care

…are presented below. Note: figures for Canada and U.K. reflect median waiting times. In all of the countries surveyed above (except the US), the government is responsible for the vast…

The Real Crisis

…more per person on health care than any other country – 75 percent more than Canada or France – yet rank near the bottom among industrial countries in indicators from…

Expectations for 2005

…tightening also expected in Canada and — in the final months of 2005 — in the euro zone, a Reuters poll of more than 150 economists showed Tuesday. …The median…

Treas. Sec. Snow on Why Export Demand is Weak

…nations starting with ours: US: 5.7% UK: 6.1% Canada: 7.1% France: 3.7% Germany: 1.0% Italy: 2.4% Japan: 2.6% (All calculations based on International Financial Statistics). Four of the six fellow…

The Trade Deficit

…a collection of several medium-sized economies put together, like Australia, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Belgium, and Spain. Take all of the goods produced by all of those countries, let their citizens…

A Difference of Opinion

…the other hand, purchases of dollar assets by people in other parts of the world (with the exception of Canada) has seemed to slow recently, as would be expected if…