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All the Gold in Fort Knox

Yesterday I had a trivia question about Fort Knox. We all thought it was in Tennessee, turns out it’s in Kentucky. Anyway we went to wikipedia to check it out. According to wikipedia there is about 4603 tonnes of gold stored at Fort Knox, but it isn’t the largest reserve of gold [...]

What would you do with $10,000

I bet you wouldn’t lend it to Wall Street to help them (and us) out of the current financial crisis but that is exactly what Secretary Paulson wants to do. 700 billion dollars works out to about $5000 per American household but the total cost of bailouts, including those that have already taken place [...]

Defining Poverty

I usually listen to KUNM on my way to and from work. I love NPR, I think it is no nonsense news and information. This morning on the KUNM Call in Show they were discussing household energy prices and how they would affect New Mexico households this winter. The best part of the [...]