9/84Estimated amount of money sent home each year by Mexicans working in the U.S.: $500,000,000
10/85Rank of national and local Miss America pageants among all sources of college scholarship money for women: 1
7/85Percentage of all money spent by American tourists in Britain in 1984 that was spent at Harrods: 6
1/86Percentage of American men who say they enjoy sex more than money: 47
Percentage of American women who say this: 26
7/86Amount of money Japan invests overseas each month: $7,000,000,000
11/87Tuition for a week at the Dollars ¢ Sense management camp for teenagers in Florida: $600
9/89Percentage of fast-food restaurant employees who say they have stolen food or money from their employer: 62
6/90Members of the Panamanian cabinet who have owned or directed banks accused of laundering drug money: 5
12/91Amount of money electronically transferred every minute among U.S. banks: $819,300,000
7/91Number of hours that U.S. convenience-store employees spend counting pennies each year: 5,500,000
1/93Percentage of TV viewers who say they wouldn’t give up watching TV in exchange for any amount of money: 25
12/94Number of industrialized countries whose manufacturers pay higher wages than those in the United States: 9
12/95Ratio of Americans who worry “a lot” about money and health insurance to those who worry about going to hell: 5:1
6/95Ratio of soft-money contributions made to the Republican National Committee last January to those made in January 1993: 24:1
8/98Estimated portion of the value of the currency circulating in Russia that is in U.S. dollars: 1/2
12/99Percentage of U.S. children who say their greatest wish for their parents is that they make more money: 23
4/99Expenditures for which the Pentagon could not account last year: $22,000,000,000
5/99Amount of the $5 billion that Exxon was ordered to pay in punitive damages in 1994 that it has paid: 0
Estimated amount that Exxon has earned by investing this money in the meantime: $5,000,000,000
4/00Total return on a dollar invested in the “socially responsible” Domini 400 Social Index in 1990: $5.75
9/00Year in which Mikhail Gorbachev told Ronald Reagan, “I think you’re wasting your money ” on Star Wars: 1987
1/01Number of last year’s top ten soft-money donors that contributed to both major parties: 6
10/01Spending money that Slobodan Milosevic can earn per day for laundry duty at the U.N. prison at The Hague: $2
2/01Estimated amount of Colombian drug money laundered each year via purchases of U.S. goods and services: $3,000,000,000
Amount this represents as a percentage of U.S. military aid pledged to Colombia last year: 578
3/01Annual number of U.S. elementary school students who play The Stock Market Game, a 10-week trading simulation: 200,000
Additional amount they may borrow on margin: $100,000
11/02Percentage by which the new campaign-finance-reform law will raise the cap on hard-money contributions: +100
6/02Amount of missing lunch money for which a Kansas City teacher strip-searched 23 third-graders in March: $5
1/04Rank of oil exports and money sent home by U.S. immigrants, respectively, among Mexico’s largest sources of income: 1,2
3/04Years of insurance that the money lost annually to health-care fraud and overbilling could buy every uninsured U.S. child: 3
5/04Years in prison to which two ex-Pentagon officials were sentenced last year for taking bribes of money and prostitutes: 24
9/04Number of HealthSouth executives charged with conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, or lying since March 2003: 20
Number who have pled guilty: 17
11/07Number of sixty Iraqi detainees surveyed who said they had attacked U.S. forces for political reasons: 12
5/07Rank of money and God, respectively, among “the very best thing[s] in the world” to British children under 10: 1, 10
10/08Percentage change since 2003 in the amount of money invested in U.S. faith-based mutual funds: +32
Average annualized percentage return since then in the Christian and Muslim funds, respectively: +7, +11
3/08Percentage of single U.S. women in their twenties who are “very” or “extremely” willing to marry for money: 61