U.S. stocks gained 21% for the first two years of the Trump administration. versus 71.2% in the first two years of the Obama administration.
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What is the cause of the opioid crisis?
Deaths from opioids have increased by 753% since 1999, but deaths from cocaine and methamphetamines have increased by approximately 456% during this same time.
There were about 2.5 million people living in the United States’ original 13 States in 1776.
Over the last 60 years, the number of democracies has doubled and the number of autocracies has been cut in half.
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How much money is there in the world?
In 2017, the entire world produced about $127.8 trillion of wealth (GDP).
The average American spends about 70 minutes per day consuming news.
0% of economists expressed support for tariffs in a recent poll.
3,222 Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2016, including perpetrators and excluding deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. 3,081 of these deaths occurred on American soil. 2,902 of these deaths occurred during the attacks on September 11, 2001. This is an average of 214 deaths per year. As of August 2016, the […]
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How many people have Alzheimer’s disease?
Worldwide, nearly 44 million people have Alzheimer’s or related dementia. An estimated 5.8 million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2018. The NIH spent $1.9 billion on Alzheimer’s research in 2018. This comes out to $327 per victim.
Military Spending By Country Over Time