This is true only if you count government expenditure.

ECONOMIST: In old California

Apple has stubbornly resisted offering a lower-priced iPhone, or a handset with a significantly larger screen-size (older, discounted models don't count as a true lower price effort).

CNN: Samsung is spanking Apple in earnings, sales

The second or third largest hotel on earth, depending how you count, the MGM Grand is a true Las Vegas icon: the city's largest hotel, a major concert and sporting event venue, full of nightlife and entertainment options and celebrity chef restaurants, including arguably the nation's single best fine dining spot, the 3-Michelin starred, Forbes 5-Star, Joel Robuchon.

FORBES: MGM Grand, Las Vegas

He and the rest of the opposition claim that the vote-count was also rigged though, even if true, this may not have affected the result, so thumping was Mr Rajapaksa's margin.

ECONOMIST: The president tightens his grip

Rather, we count the numbers of TEUs moving through the port facilities around the world as the true signal of economic strength or weakness, and those numbers are rising, not falling.

FORBES: The Baltic Dry Index and Goodhart's Law