in Manhattan, driving a car during the week creates $160 of negative externalities

Actually, chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, among people younger than 65 drives two-thirds of medical spending. About 85 percent of medical costs are spent on people younger than 65

The Sinaloa cartel can buy a kilo of cocaine in the highlands of Colombia or Peru for around $2,000, then watch it accrue value as it makes its way to market. In Mexico, that kilo fetches more than $10,000. Jump the border to the United States, and it could sell wholesale for $30,000. Break it down into grams to distribute retail, and that same kilo sells for upward of $100,000

the average heist in the States only nets $4,330.00

One out of three builders say they lost signed sales contracts during the last half of 2011 because appraisals on their homes were less than the sales price the buyer agreed to, according to the latest data from the National Association of Home Builders.

500 per year

19.5 minutes per person in 2004

In 2004, the average extra waiting time due to TSA procedures was 19.5 minutes per person. That’s a total economic loss – in America – of $10 billion per year, more than the TSA’s entire budget.

The new estimates show that in 2008, the first year of the finance-and-food crisis, both the number and share of the population living on less than $1.25 a day (at 2005 prices, the most commonly accepted poverty line) was falling in every part of the world. This was the first instance of declines across the board since the bank started collecting the figures in 1981 (see chart)

The endorsements decrease aggregate adult fiction sales; likely as a result of the endorsed books being more difficult than those that otherwise would have been purchased.

Professor Robert Richardson, of Cornell University, New York, who won the Nobel physics prize in 1996 for his research on helium, argues that a helium party balloon should cost £75, to reflect the true value of the gas used. Yet you can buy enough helium to float 200 balloons for that price. “We are squandering an irreplaceable resource,” he says.

As a world average, the per-person food availability for direct human consumption grew 19 percent to 2720 kilocalories per day in the three and a half decades to the mid-nineties

Bills and coins represent only 3 percent of Sweden’s economy, compared to an average of 9 percent in the eurozone and 7 percent in the U.S.

previously financial speculators historically accounted for about 30 percent of oil contracts. This is a large part of why oil prices are rising.