Sprint was reportedly just hours away from an multi-billion dollar acquisition of the MetroPCS network. Then the company's board got involved. Now, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse might be running for his professional life. More »
This one billion dollar bill was found inside an old trunk in Switzerland. The trunk, marked Federal Reserve System, Chicago, Motherbox, Treaty of Versailles, had a total of six trillion dollars inside. That's one third of the US national debt! More »
...jobs in America? He introduced in 2008 and then pushed to have re-introduced in 2009 a measure that would commit to giving Africa 845 billion dollars of US taxpayers' money.
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1010-Obama-s-Global-Poverty-Bill-is-Back
And 2008 and 2009 were the peak...
Although it is of course impossible to say exactly when it will happen, demographers have picked 31st Oct 2011 as the symbolic date when the world population officially hits 7 billion. Its somewhat ironic choosing the day of the dead to highlight world population, that has taken little more...
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world's largest non-governmental organization working in sexual and reproductive health, is calling to renew the focus on young people's reproductive health as the world's population reaches seven billion on 31 October. According to...
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that $6.7 billion was spent in one year performing unnecessary tests or prescribing unnecessary medications in primary care, with 86 percent of that cost attributed to the prescription of brand-name statins to treat high cholesterol. The...
...TARP bailout bill was 700 billion alone? ....and it was UNFUNDED (that means no tax for it) don't you think it's pretty unlikely that TARP was reflected on Bush's bill, and rather got stuck on Obama's tab?
That ALONE would have brought Obama's deficit to 1.2 trillion, nearly all of his...
Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other US website. And cumulatively, it's not a small amount of time, it's a lot of time. Nielsen estimates that Americans spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook during the month of May. More »
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) President and CEO Mark Merritt released the following statement today on a new lawsuit by several drugstore lobbying groups to prevent the California Medicaid program from reducing pharmacy payments: "California could have sidestepped this...
...infrastructure? it was part of the cash in the stimulus Bill. I was so excited as the President and Speaker Pelosi both said it would create 400.000 jobs~ it was for the roads, bridges and also schools!!! As Speaker Pelosi said for the children to learn better.
I knew that that cash...
I heard that there was 8 movies that have grossed over $1 billion, but I could only find 7:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Titanic, Avatar, The Dark Knight, Alice in Wonderland, and Toy Story 3.
Is there an 8th movie?
...cutting real? or is it just more Washington smoke&mirrors, where they raise the spending $1 trillion 1st, then they take $100 billion off of that?
How much longer do they think they'll be able to fool us with these stupid games?
...people are trying to overthrow? In fact, Egypt is the 2nd largest US foreign aid recipient, after Israel.
Gee golly, wonder how well THAT turned out...
The US Department of Health and Human Services together with the Department of Justice have managed to claw back a record $4 billion in one year in the government's health care fraud prevention efforts. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and US Associate Attorney General, Thomas J. Pirelli said...
The global market for mobile broadband will continue to grow rapidly, and by 2015 one billion people will use it as their only form of internet access, according to new research from independent analyst house Ovum.