Monday November 2, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 90,000,000
Number of employees whose businesses use CIT cash
Romans' Numeral: $2.3 billion
Amount of bailout money at risk in CIT
Read more: CIT bankruptcy: 5th largest in U.S.
Monday October 26, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 7,000
Number of people losing unemployment benefits each day
Romans' Numeral: 65
Small business created 65% of all new jobs over the past 15 years
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 41 days
Days until end of first-time home buyer credit
Romans' Numeral: 85,000
Apps available online in the Apple App Store
Tuesday October 13, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $288 billion
Stimulus tax relief
Romans’ Numeral: 1983
Last time unemployment rate was this high
Monday October 12, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $600 billion
Paper gain last week in Wilshire 5000
Romans' Numeral: 16 cents
Of every dollar is spent on health care
Thursday October 8, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 400,000
People ran out of unemployment benefits in September
Source: National Employment Law Project
Wednesday October 7, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $2,563
Stimulus cost per every woman, man and child
Romans' Numeral: $45 billion
Government bailout for Bank of America
Tuesday October 6, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 27.9 million
Number of U.S. Internet users that have a blog
Source: eMarketer
Monday October 5, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 5,400,000
Number of people unemployed for 6 months or longer
Romans' Numeral: 38,416
Debt dollar amount per U.S. citizen
Thursday October 1, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 140 countries
Bill Gates' net worth larger than GDP of 140 countries
Source: Forbes
Romans' Numeral: 274
Self-made richest Americans on the Forbes list
Tuesday September 29, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 11.4 times
Income gap between the richest and poorest Americans
Source: Census data
Romans' Numeral: $830,000
Median CEO pay at nonprofit hospitals
Monday September 28, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $14
How much Peter Madoff invested with his brother Bernie Madoff
Source: CBS "60 Minutes"
Romans’ Numeral: 63%
Consumers say how they spend & save changed forever due to recession
Wednesday September 23, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 8%
Companies offering paid maternity leave
Source: Institute for Women Policy Research
Tuesday September 22, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 25.5 minutes
Average commute time to work
Monday September 21, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 70 months
Time needed to recreate the jobs lost since the start of this recession
Romans’ Numeral: 14
Number of states with unemployment rate of at least 10%
Thursday September 17, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 31%
Decline in home prices from the 2006 peak
Wednesday September 16, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 59.2%
Working-age population with a job
Wednesday September 9, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 6
Number of lobbyists per lawmaker working on health overhaul
Tuesday September 8, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 95,667
Average number of manufacturing jobs lost each month in this recession
Source: Labor Department data
Romans’ Numeral: 81%
Americans concerned about security of their job/income
Source: NPD Group
Monday September 7, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: $26,578
Median retirement plan balance
Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute
Romans’ Numeral: $32,613,828,763
Bonuses at nine major banks last year
Source: Executive Excess 2009 report
Friday September 4, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: $21 billion
Profits generated by high-frequency traders last year
Source: The Tabb Group, a research firm
Thursday September 3, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 1992
SEC received first complaint about Madoff’s business
Romans’ Numeral: 103
Days spent working to pay taxes
Source: Tax Foundation
Wednesday September 2, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 436x
Pay gap between top 20 bank CEOs and the average U.S. worker
Tuesday September 1, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $510
Average amount of cash each Madoff victim would get from sale of beach house
Romans' Numeral: 6
The number of job seekers per available job
Monday August 31, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 8,170,000
Number of Americans harvesting their first food garden this year
Thursday August 26, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: 19%
Toyota 'Cash for Clunkers' Sale
Romans’ Numeral: 305
"Problem" banks so far this year
Tuesday August 25, 2009
Romans' Numeral: 1937
The second dip of the Great Depression
Monday August 24, 2009
Romans' Numeral: $9 trillion
10-year budget deficit projection
Romans' Numeral: $600
Savings from tax break for new car buyers
Note: Based on a $35,000 car
Source: Senator Mikulski office
Romans' Numeral: $3
Of every $10 of average Social Security check to go to out-of pocket health care expenses
Source: 2009 Medicate Trustee’s Report
Friday August 21, 2009
Romans’ Numeral: $12,680
Annual cost of family policy without subsidy
Thursday August 20
Romans’ Numeral: $1,157
Average balance per open credit card
Source: Experian marketing insight snapshot, March 2009
Your new credit card rights:
* Right to reject rate increase
* 5 years to repay balance at current rate
* 45-day notice before rate increase
* Bills mailed 21 days before due date
CNNMoney: Credit card relief starts today
Wednesday August 19
Romans' Numeral: 38%
Employers expect to recall cut workers.
Source: Labor Department
Romans' Numeral: 411,624
Cash for Clunkers deals so far
Tuesday August 18
Romans' Numeral: 133
Number of emergency small business loans issued each week
Romans' Numeral: 25 hours
Average resolution time per identity theft victim
Source: Javelin Strategy and Research 2007 Identity Fraud Survey
Monday August 17
Romans' Numeral: 4,520,390
The number of houses $787 billion could buy outright at the median home price
Tuesday July 28:
Romans' Numeral: $2,050,000
How much money in Social Security checks was sent to deceased people.
Romans' Numeral: 1985
Last time U.S. government issued that much debt
Romans' numeral: 250 calories
The average American consumes 250 more daily calories today than two decades ago
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Monday July 27:
Romans numeral: 1994
Fed’s Open Market Committee first began to announce its decision on interest rates.
Romans' Numeral: $55 billion
Estimated stimulus money that may be lost to waste and fraud.
Source: Earl Devaney, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Tuesday July 21
Romans' Numeral: $611
How much an average American earns every week
Source: Labor Department
Romans’ Numeral: 2,300
Average number of hits Recovery.gov receives every minute
Source: New York Times
Monday July 6
Romans' Numeral: 335,000
Number of auto industry jobs lost since the recession began
Source: Labor Department
Romans’ Numeral: 22%
Revenue decline in the newspaper publishing division for the first quarter of 2009
Source: The Washington Post Company, First Quarter Earnings
Thursday July 2
Romans’ Numeral: 150,000
Number of jobs we need to create each month to keep up with population growth
Romans' numeral: 20,000
Number of loans refinanced so far under the Making Home Affordable program
Source: Treasury Department
Thursday June 11
Romans' Numeral: 64%
How much Bank of America shares lost in value since purchase of Merrill Lynch
Romans' Numeral: 2,097
Number of homes padlocked each day
Source: RealtyTrac May foreclosure report
Tuesday June 9
Romans’ Numeral: $69,444
Amount of money Chrysler loses every minute
Romans' Numeral: $35,000
New emergency loans available to small business owners
Monday June 8
Romans' Numeral: 32.1 inches
The average airline seat leg room.
Romans' Numeral: $18
How much more it will cost to fill up your gas tank today compared to Jan 1st 2009.
Wednesday June 3
Romans’ Numeral: 13,900,000,000
Minutes users spent on Facebook in April
Thursday May 28
Romans’ Numeral: 21
Number of states where unemployment fell last month
Source: Department of Labor
Wednesday May 27
Romans' Numeral: 92%
GM stock lost in value since one year ago.
Romans' Numeral: 74,000
Number of people GM employs in the U.S.
Source: General Motors
Tuesday May 26
Romans' Numeral: 60 miles per hour
Highway speed for best fuel efficiency
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
Romans' numeral: $36,972.51
Your share of the national debt
Friday May 22
Romans' Numeral: 1
First African-American female CEO in the Fortune 500 (Ursula Burns, currently President of Xerox Corporation to become CEO effective July 1)
Romans' Numeral: 25
Number of failed banks last year
Source: FDIC
Thurs. May 21
Romans Numeral: 5%
Unemployment rate a year ago
Source: Labor Department
Weds. May 20
Romans' Numeral: 57
Years it will take to pay off $9,827 credit card debt
Note: Assumes 18% interest rate; 2% minimum payment
Romans' Numeral: $28,412
Overall interest on credit card debt of $9,827, if pay minimum
Note: Assumes 18% interest rate; 2% minimum payment
Tues. May 19
Romans' numeral: 1994
Airline satisfaction numbers have been consistently falling since 1994.
Source: American Customer Satisfaction Index, University of Michigan
Romans' Numeral: $372
Annual fuel cost savings based on new fuel economy standards
Note: Assumes 15K miles of driving annually; fuel cost of $2.31
Romans' Numeral: 82 Billion
Credit card losses for 19 biggest banks over two years
Mon. May 18
Romans' Numeral: $27
Average savings per tank of gas versus a year ago.
Note: Calculation based on an 18-gallon gas tank
Romans’ Numeral: $ 4,900,000
Average dealer’s new car inventory
Source: Chrysler’s national dealer council
Romans' Numeral: $37
Cost of driving from New York to Baltimore, and back
Note: Calculations based on 16 gallons of gasoline
Fri. May 15
Romans’ Numeral: $1,000
Certificates for existing Chrysler customers toward purchase of new cars
Romans’ Numeral: $636
Average weekly pay for typical auto dealer employee
Source: Data for 2006; Labor Department
Thurs. May 14
Romans’ Numeral: 6%
Stimulus money the government has paid out so far.
Weds. May 13
Romans' Numeral: $169,000
National median home price in the first quarter
Source: National Association of Realtors
Romans' Numeral: 27,000,000
Number of car travelers during the coming Memorial Day holiday.
Source: AAA
Tues. May 12
Romans’ Numeral: 46 cents
The government will have to borrow for every dollar it spends this year
Romans’ Numeral: $777,000,000
Americans spent per day on gas in April
Source: Tom Kloza, OPIS
Mon. May 11
Romans' Numeral: 16%
Underemployment rate, counting discouraged workers and part-time workers who want full-time job.
Source: Economist Peter Morici, University of Maryland
Romans’ Numeral: 59%
Pay their credit card bills last, when finances are tight
Source: CreditCards.com