ECONOMIC TIDBIT FOR THE MONTH:


  • All of Mark Zuckerberg’s Shares In Facebook--$13.7 billion
  • The entire net worth of Michael Bloomberg--$22 billion
  • Cost of Big Dig, most expensive highway project in US history--$24.3 billion.
  • Cost of US shutdown (ongoing, but as of 10/17/13)--$24.4 billion


October 17, 2013




HEALTH CARE TIDBIT:

CNN/ORC International Poll on Affordable Care Act: Sept 29, 2013:
  • Percent of Americans who oppose the ACA: 46%
  • Percent who support it or oppose it because think it should be even more progressive: 49%
House Speaker John Boehner, Oct. 7, 2013, “Americans hate Obamacare; we all know that. The polls all show that.”


October 1, 2013