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Date Posted: 16:05:06 07/26/09 Sun
Author: Bob
Subject: forum: from Harper's Index in the current issue

* The amount of governmental support that Canadian banks have required during the current financial crisis has been $0.00.
* 7.2% of US mortgages are either in foreclosure or are more than 90 days delinquent while a tiny O.4% of Canadian mortgages are.
* there was 0.5 probability that a US home purchase in the 1st quarter of this year was a foreclosed or short-sale property.
* +63% has been the percentage change in the amount of debt between winter 2008 and winter 2009 that credit card companies have written off, and the percentage change in the same period in the amount of delinquent US credit card debt has been +47.
* The projected change in worldwide electricity usage this year is -3.5, and the number of years since record keeping began in 1945 that usage has declined has been zero.
* There's a 1 in 4 chance that a George W. Bush cabinet member now works for a firm lobbying his or her former department.
* The minimum amount raised for the George W. Bush presidential library so far is $100,000,000.
* Since 2007, there's been a +300 percentage change in the number of Texas cattle thefts.
* Since 1988, 421,500 tons of active pharmaceutical ingredients have been dumped into the environment by medical supply companies.
* The projected change by 2050 in the amount of mercury in the Pacific Ocean is +33.

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