Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Some Numbers 1

Some Numbers 1

It costs one hundred thousand dollars to investigate someone for a high security clearance.


If you 1. graduate from high school,  2. immediately get a job and 3. get married before you have a baby  you will have only a 5% chance of ever being in poverty. If you grow up in poverty and do those three things, 86% will never be in poverty.


70% of students in Great Britain have student loans that will not be paid off in their lifetime.


From 1987 to 2016, the average investor would have done as well in short term T-bills as stocks.


You can get Spam at McDonald's in Hawaii. (Not really numerical but....)


The number of American stocks is declining due to mergers, acquisitions and, the most important, going private. Private companies can do a lot more, have less federal regulations, are subject to less shareholder complaints and less activism.


Industrialism has decreased the profit margin in marijuana.


There is $70 trillion in world stock markets, $217 trillion in world bond markets, $5 trillion in trading currencies per day. Day.


42% of people will not date a person with a credit score below 600. Females are more demanding than males.


Last year, more than $55 billion was spent on weddings. Statistically, divorce is more common in weddings costing more than $25 thousand and with more expensive engagement rings.


In 2016, $15 Billion was spent in the U.S. on cosmetic surgery.


In many areas of the country, 70% of the cars are leased.

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