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Visualizing India’s Growing Economy | ZeroHedge

Comments made by CEO BVR Subrahmanyam of the Indian government think tank NITI Aayog about the size of the Indian economy have made headlines in the country's media.

On Saturday, the head of the organization said that India was the world's fourth largest economy "as I speak".

Subrahmanyam cited IMF data to back up the claim.

In fact, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, India is projected to overtake Japan and move up into rank four of the (more…)

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“Grading For Equity”: San Fran Public Schools Trigger Outcry With Plan To Lower Standards For Students | ZeroHedge

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

The Voice of San Francisco is reporting that San Francisco Board of Education Superintendent Maria Su has found a solution for the declining scores in the public schools: lowering the standards for better grades.

It is known as the New Grading for Equity plan. That is far easier than actually teaching students to meet basic proficiency levels. 

Even in the uber-liberal district, parents were outraged and there are reports that the plan is now (more…)

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Did Smoot-Hawley Cause The Great Depression? | ZeroHedge

Authored by Christopher Whalen via DailyReckoning.com,

Americans are taught in school that the Smoot-Hawley tariff legislation of 1930 greatly exacerbated the Great Depression and sent the world spinning off into a decade of debt deflation and economic contraction.

This seems to make sense until we remember that the history of the United States over the past century was written largely by progressives. In fact, the Great Depression began in 1920 with a decade of falling (more…)

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