| Aug 2003 | - Percentage of Americans who say they have "always had credit card debt": 11
| Source:
Lawyers.com (N.Y.C.)
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| Apr 2003 | - Total fines U.S. investment banks will pay to end investigations into their stock recommendations: $985,000,000
| Source:
Office of the New York State Attorney General (N.Y.C.)
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| Dec 2002 | - Price of a child's personal ATM from FAO Schwarz last year: $20,000
| Source:
FAO Schwarz (N.Y.C.)
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| Nov 2001 | - Amount spent last year on company credit cards issued to federal government employees: $17,300,000,000
| Source:
U.S. General Services Administration
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| Aug 2000 | - Number of prizes in economics funded “in memory of Alfred Nobel” by the Bank of Sweden: 31
| Source:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Stockholm)/Nobel Foundation (Stockholm)
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| Jan 2000 | - Number of U.S. banks in 1921, 1933, and 1999, respectively: 30,456, 14,207, 8,675
| Source:
All Bank Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Washington)/Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Washington)
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| Nov 1999 | - Number of East Harlem ATM machines offering free service for the neighborhood's 11,000 welfare recipients: 7
| Source:
New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (Albany, N.Y.)
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| Nov 1999 | - Number of Upper East Side ATM machines offering free service for the neighborhood's 700 welfare recipients: 120
| Source:
New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (Albany, N.Y.)
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| Jan 1999 | - Average number of donations that a North Carolina church receives each week through its ATM: 7
| Source:
The Unity Center of Peace Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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| Dec 1998 | - Chance that an American adult does not have a checking account: 1 in 5
| Source:
Yankelovich Partners (Norwalk, Conn.)
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| Oct 1998 | - Percentage change since 1995 in Mexico's spending on its bank bailout: +705
| Source:
Banco de Mexico (Mexico City)
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| Sep 1998 | - Ratio of political contributions made last year by the consumer-credit industry to those made by tobacco companies: 4:3
| Source:
Common Cause (Washington)
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| Aug 1998 | - Number of credit-card solicitations mailed to Americans last year: 3,000,000,000
| Source:
BAI Global Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.)
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| Jul 1998 | - Percentage change since 1994 in the annual number of independent commercial banks opening in the U.S.: +276
| Source:
American Bankers Association (Washington, D.C.)
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| Apr 1998 | - Number of Astoria Federal Savings ATMs in New York City at which transactions may be conducted in Yiddish: 31
| Source:
Astoria Federal Savings (Lake Success, N.Y.)
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