Volkswagen automobiles are prepared for export at the company's plant in Emden in April, 2009CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS
A roundup of the best economic posts on the Web
Five lessons for Uncle Sam
The U.S. economy is four times the size of Germany's, but Germany exports more manufactured goods. A post on Real Time Economics offers five lessons that Germany can teach the U.S. about trade.
The real numbers behind Canada's fiscal update
From Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Economy Lab contributor Stephen Gordon puts some graphical context into Ottawa's fiscal update with some nice charts on what Ottawa's books really look like.
China leads list of world's richest self-made women
The Economist picks up on a list put out by a Chinese magazine of the 20 richest self-made women in the world. Paper magnate Zhang Yin leads the list with an estimated worth approaching $6-billion.
Global composite indices - 'handle with care'
Martin Ravallion, director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, warns against embracing the 'mashup' of new composite global indices - such as life expectancy, literacy and education - as a way to measure development.
The choice: Rich in 1900 or middle-class in 2010
Planet Money asks readers to choose if they would rather earn $70,000 in 1900, and enjoy the trappings of super-wealth, or earn $70,000 now.