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Purchasing Power

  • That elusive middle class

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    Jacques René Zammit

    I was listening to yet another radio discussion on France INFO about the Salon d’Automobile that is on in Paris at the moment. It’s actually called the “Mondial d’Auto” but nostalgics still refer to it with the original name. Listening to the experts debating the dwindling fortunes of the European auto mobile industry in these times of…

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  • Thrifty with Facts

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    Jacques René Zammit

    Thanks to an Evarist Bartolo link on facebook I came across this article on Maltastar that compares the wages between Malta and Luxembourg taking data from a recent survey based on “average wages” and the Purchasing Power Parity. While it is interesting to look at figures consisting solely of wages as averaged out in relation…

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