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Date Posted: 13:51:41 05/03/09 Sun
Author: Bob
Subject: from the May issue of Harper's magazine' s"Harper's Index"

* Change since March 2008 in the total credit extended to Americans through credit cards: -$349,300,000,000
* Estimated portion of all new U.S. "savings" last year that actually was payment of credit card debt: 3/4.
* Percentage change in the past year in the number of U.S. cars and trucks repossessed: +12.
* percentage change in the number of leisure boats repossessed: +72.
* Chances that an American who has become unemployed since December 2007 is a man: 4 in 5.
* Percentage of all U.S. men over 20 who are now unemployed or not seeking work: 31.
* Estimated percentage of Bush administration political appointees who are currently unemployed: 70.
* Gallons of coal ash released into a Tennessee river last December by a power plant: 1,100,000,000.
* Factor by which this exceeds the volume of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez: 101.

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