In what is being interpreted as a “troll”, the African country of Namibia is now offering to take in Germans fleeing inflation and high electricity prices in their homeland. Namibia, a former German colony in southwest Africa, is lending a helping hand to Germans fed up with the ever-increasing cost of living. The country’s president, Hage Gottfried Geingob, received German economy... 

The middle class in America has been disappearing because of the rapid increase in the cost of living in the United States. Indeed, the cost of living in the United States (food, rent, medical insurance and so on) has been growing rapidly. On the federal level, the poverty threshold for a family of five makes up $28,410, although 51% of all American workers make less than $ 30,000 a year at the moment. In... 

Moshe Silman self-immolated in Tel Aviv during a demonstration against social injustice and high cost of living, July 14, 2012. Another Israeli man has set himself on fire in the city of Yehud, two days after an Israeli protester died of burns sustained in self-immolation. The 45-year-old disabled man self-immolated at a bus stop in Yehud, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of Tel Aviv. Medical sources... 

Israelis hold banners as they protest in Tel Aviv city on June 30, 2012. Thousands of Israelis have staged rallies in several cities to protest against social inequalities and the rising cost of living. The demonstrations were held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the northern city of Haifa on Saturday in an attempt to revive last summer’s cost-of-living protest movement. The protesters shouted, “The...