Robert Golden
Retired computer professional looking to re-enter the work force due to increased life support expenses.
Europe vs. USA: Whose Economy Wins? In what sense is the US richer?
Average gross domestic product (GDP) in the US is about 40% higher than average GDP of the EU-15 when measured at purchasing power parity (PPP). The gap is slightly greater if we consider either the twelve Eurozone members (EU-12) or add the accession states (EU-25). Although GDP is a poor indicator of measure of welfare or happiness, let’s agree to use it for the sake of comparison. The main reason the US is richer is, first of all, because a higher proportion of Americans are in employment and, secondly, they work about 20% more hours per year than Europeans. When we adjust for both these factors and look at GDP in 2005 per person per hour worked, there is virtually no difference between Germany, France and the US. Economists often speak of this as revealing different American and European social preferences for work and leisure.
Who has Faster Growth? Does the US grow faster than the EU? Employment and Unemployment Who wins? Volunteer, work, intern, organize, hire and connect. Change the world - idealist.org. Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English for free. How to Get By in Spanish. About Marcus Santamaria My name is Marcus Santamaria.
That's me with my family in the picture above. After I met and married my wife, Elena, we decided to move to Mexico to be near her family. But I didn't speak a word of Spanish! I needed to learn the language so that I could interact with her family and friends. But I had another motivation, too... As an English teacher, I absolutely needed to learn the language so that I didn't feel like a fraud! My shame drove me to search endlessly for a better way of learning and teaching. Once I discovered what's really important for communication, (you'll be amazed at how much of what is normally taught actually gets in the way of communication) and how to best use the mind for rapid learning, I became fluent in Spanish and very successful at teaching, too! I am now a very successful language teacher - one of the most respected and highest paid in Latin America.
What People Say about Marcus and Synergy Spanish "Synergy Spanish is fantastic. P.S. The Little Metronome That Wouldn't : Krulwich Wonders... If this wasn't a science page, if this happened 3,000 years ago in, say, a Middle Eastern desert, I would call it a Miracle.
But it's not. It's just a plain, ordinary moment of "wow! " First, the beginner's version. A man takes a bunch of metronomes, sets them ticking in different ways, then — and this is the crucial part — he lifts them collectively off the table, so their different motions now start to offset each other. And this happens: But why?
Even more simply stated: As the metronomes tick back and forth, they affect the table, and because the table is designed to absorb the motion of the metronomes, the table itself starts to move. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes — a Mormon Tabernacle Choir of metronomes — all misaligned. They once made a movie about that stubborn metronome. Today.