The richest 4 US counties per capita are all located in Virginia and Maryland thanks to the massive wealth funnel that is the Military-Industrial Complex.
The $4 trillion created by the Federal Reserve as part of the 2020 stimulus program appears to have gone entirely to the top 1% wealthiest people in the world.
The brain takes in 11 million bits of data per second but the conscious mind can only process around 400 of those bits.
Around 20% opposed the US Revolution for democracy, about 40% supported it, and about 40% didn’t give a damn.
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Democracy Gonna Make You Rich, Bitch!
A country that switches from non-democracy to democracy achieves about 20% higher GDP per capita over the next 30 years.
A 2008 and 2016 poll of voters showed wishful thinking bias led a majority of people to believe their favored candidate was going to win.
The average cost of getting a new drug to market is $1.3 billion.
The primary recipients of newly created money are currently banks and corporations who are able to borrow from the Fed almost 0% interest and loan this to the public at much higher interest rates.
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A World Run By Economists
If only economists could run for office, the the compound interest on more efficient resource allocation, would have produced a utopia with flying cars by now.
The increase in depression is most correlated with the increase in inflammatory autoimmune diseases and with significant changes in the western diet.