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democrats have more money.

republicans just don't get good press.

Wall Street is gonna love Hillary - start buying your stock funds now!

Sorry, that information has been overcome by events - as if anyone had any doubts it would be, given that it showed a virtual tie. I was waiting for someone to complacently fall for the trap.

China and the US changed places in 2010.

Look at the comparative graphs.

Doesn't lead to much complacency on the part of rational people in the US, and if you separate out the "defense" manufacturing, the gap is FAR wider.

Here is the authoritative statistical data.

no data for climate change? how about... http://en.mercopress.com/2011/09/01/two-major-arctic-ocean-shipping-routes-open-simultaneously-as-ice-recedes

I suggest you dig a bit deeper. The official inflation in Argentina is around 12% anually, which is a number computed by the INDEC (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, or National Institue of Statistics and Census). This organism is under official intervention since 2007, and it hasn't been providing accurate indicators since then. Actual inflation rates in Argentina are around 25%, which indeed is a tad under Venezuela.

I know this sounds ludicrous, but it is the truth. It's gotten so bad that any consultants publishing inflation indexes that differs from the official ones provided by the INDEC are being forced to pay fees for "confusing the population". This people then resorted to publish their numbers through congress members, who act as a proxy: http://en.mercopress.com/2011/08/09/argentina-s-congress-inflation-index-for-july-1.62-doubles-the-official-rate . You could also browse some other INDEC indexes (http://www.indec.mecon.ar/, sadly only in Spanish) which are way even worse. This organism claims that a typical family of four is above poverty with 1600 Argentinian pesos per month, or roughly 380 dollars. To put that in perspective, a moderate trip to the supermarket here can set you back between 50 and 70 dollars.

Argentina isn't doing well. The economic growth indexes are indeed impressive, but are tied solely to the international increase of soy prices. In more ways than one we (and most of South America for that matter) were extremely lucky. There's no real growth - industrial occupation is roughly the same as 10 years ago, for example. The economy works due to a mix of public subsidies and strong push of middle-class consumption - for example, the government funds (literally) plans to buy LCDs and other appliances on 50 installments. No, that's not a typo. The best way to buy a new TV in Argentina is to be in debt with a bank for 4 years: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=es&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1261524-los-secretos-de-las-50-cuotas-sin-interes

Don't be fooled by the GDP growth indexes in Argentina. They're more or less on par with the rest of South America. Meanwhile Argentina is perhaps the only country in the world where people buy appliances in installments and houses with cash.

You'd be very popular in these places, all of which could produce more food on their own if government was not taxing and subsidizing and regulating food in the world:

Swaziland: HIV patients 'eat dung to make drugs work'

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/out_of_food_zimbabweans_eating_cow_dung/

Food Prices Fuel Egypt Unrest

Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions

Spike in global food prices contributes to Tunisian violence

Food price jumps protested in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

Egypt and Tunisia: rocked by the global food crisis

Hunger in Syria, Libya and Yemen

Ukraine to control food prices

Rising food prices increase squeeze on poor - Oxfam

As Food Prices Spike, Azerbaijanis Endure Border Chaos To Shop In Iran

For dummies: The impact of the global food crisis on Azerbaijan - in pictures

Estonia Raises Inflation Forecast on Global Food and Fuel Prices

Nigeria: food price up as inflationary rate drop

High food prices 'caused Niger hunger'

Mexico: Food prices reach record high

China's food price inflation hits 14.4% in June

Lithuania and Latvia catching up with Estonia

Food prices rise, wages donâ(TM)t

China food prices spike as floods ruin farmland

Brazil: Food Prices Surge and Head Toward Dangerous Levels

Rise in food prices causing major concerns in Russia

Stockpiling as Russian food prices soar

Food prices have soared most in Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina

Thousands protest against high food prices in Delhi

India: A spike in food prices is especially painful for the poor

I bet it would get pretty personal for you if you came to these places and started spouting your socialist views on how cheap food is that your government is subsidizing farmers and then paying farmers to destroy it

Swaziland: HIV patients 'eat dung to make drugs work'

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/out_of_food_zimbabweans_eating_cow_dung/

Food Prices Fuel Egypt Unrest

Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions

Spike in global food prices contributes to Tunisian violence

Food price jumps protested in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

Egypt and Tunisia: rocked by the global food crisis

Hunger in Syria, Libya and Yemen

Ukraine to control food prices

Rising food prices increase squeeze on poor - Oxfam

As Food Prices Spike, Azerbaijanis Endure Border Chaos To Shop In Iran

For dummies: The impact of the global food crisis on Azerbaijan - in pictures

Estonia Raises Inflation Forecast on Global Food and Fuel Prices

Nigeria: food price up as inflationary rate drop

High food prices 'caused Niger hunger'

Mexico: Food prices reach record high

China's food price inflation hits 14.4% in June

Lithuania and Latvia catching up with Estonia

Food prices rise, wages donâ(TM)t

China food prices spike as floods ruin farmland

Brazil: Food Prices Surge and Head Toward Dangerous Levels

Rise in food prices causing major concerns in Russia

Stockpiling as Russian food prices soar

Food prices have soared most in Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina

Thousands protest against high food prices in Delhi

India: A spike in food prices is especiall

We're getting off light, Snow in Brazil, below zero Celsius in the River Plate and tropical fish frozen, 1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster (3 Aug. 2010 - Update: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about 6 million.) watch the video, the images transcend any language barrier. While it's been cool in North America, a -16F temp anomaly isn't as devastating in the temperate regions as the -10C anomaly in the tropics and equatorial regions.

Last week there was a video in the news, it was discovered that giant squid uses flashes of light. That probably gives them a huge advantage, in an area where few of their prey will be used to light, they can see. See e.g. http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=9855&fo rmato=HTML.