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The Iran Election has been talked about on every news channel, while being the top twitter topic since the announcement of the supposed winner Ahmadinejad. Many people in Tehran believe that they election was rigged and there have even been reports of voter turnout being over 100% in .... (click blog title to read more)

The Euro went to $1.4034 last Friday, up from $1.3904 in late North American trading Thursday. The dollar index is also down from December, hitting 80.5 on Thursday. The British Pound is also doing very well at 1.59, up from last Thursday. The European currency is moving near 0.8800 after hitting...

Many of the determinants for happiness come from what people are spending on their government in taxes and what they are getting back. Because of this, the United States ranks 11th due to Social Security, the large military budget and other things. Northern Europeans seem to have the highest overall quality of life and they also have socialized health-care.

A recent article from CNNMoney.com estimates that the government has spent $8,887 per capita on bailing out the financial system since 2007. The US Census reports that the current population of the United States as of 11:18pm on April 8th, 2009 is 306,175,772. Multiplying these numbers tells us that the government has spent $2,720,984,085,764 of YOUR money in less than a year in half on helping the financial system get out of its slump.