Economic astronomy -- Richard Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)


US Debt as of 15 Oct 2008 at 04:30:54 PM GMT is:
$10,310,623,679,197
Each citizen's share of this debt is $33,814.96.
The National Debt has increased an average of $3.40 billion per day since September 28, 2007.

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."
-- John Maynard Keynes

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