…been printed is, for serious purposes, total liabilities of the Federal Reserve, which are equal to total assets of the Federal Reserve. As of February 26 these were 1,952,216 million…

…The first one presented the model. 100 people, $1000 of total income. 1976: 8.7% of the dough to the One, all the rest of the jack to the Many. 2005:…

…the total fair market value of CDS written as liabilities, but this is not what matters to bond holders. To them liabilities matter only to the extent that they cause…

…dependency ratio, which includes children, and then examine it in historical perspective things look quite a bit different. In 1965 total dependency ratio was at .905. In 2007 total dependency…

…to or from the bottom line in any given year, the second shows the resulting cumulative total, the third shows that total in terms of Trust Fund Ratio. If we…

Lifted from comments cactus style, Reader FS fills in some of the info on the farm bill: Here are CBO figures on the new farm bill. Total expenditures, 2008 through…

…the largest shares of totalgovernment spending, together accounting for 51.4 percent of total spending. This resultis largely driven by spending on government transfer payments to elderly households—many of whom reside…

…care costs, of perhaps $6 billion per year, out of total medical care spending of $1,878 billion in 2004. That’s not much of an impact. So let’s consider a more…

…divides exports by imports during the first three months of 2004 and 2005. So for example in 2005, total exports of $211.7 bn divided by total imports of $381.6 bn…

…In the previous housing boom, mortgage borrowing only increased slightly. The above graph is of the annual increase in the total household mortgage debt. Total mortgage debt increased $900 Billion…