Thursday, December 13, 2007

All About Money Part - 2

In 2000, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is the second wealthiest woman, with $5,2 billion.


Queen Elizabeth II is one of the 10th wealthiest women in the world.


The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.


The term "smart money" refers to gamblers who have inside information or have arranged a fix, the g@mbling term for insuring the outcome of an event by illegal methods.


Small-time g@mblers who place small bet in order to prolong the excitement of a game are called "dead fish" by game operators because the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing.


In gambling language, for a gambling house a "sure-thing" is a wager that a player has little chance of winning; "easy money" is their profit from an inexperienced bettor, an unlucky player is called a "stiff."


Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world; an estimated 82% of Australians bet. That is twice as much per capita as Europeans or Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1% of the world population, has 20% of the world's poker machines.


There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.


80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.


In 1900, the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce. It reached $600 in 1930, now struggling to reach $400 per ounce.


If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.


If California was a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world.


Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth.
In 1965, CEOs earned on average 44 times more than factory workers. In 1998, CEOs earned on average 326 times more than factory workers and in 1999, they earned 419 times more than factory workers.

The income gap between the richest fifth of the world's people and the poorest measured by average national income per head increased from 30 to one in 1960, to 74 to one in 1998.


A third of the world's people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.


In the 17th century, wool fabrics accounted for about two-thirds of England's foreign trade. Today, the leading wool producers are Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and China.


The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.


In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.


Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion.


Tourism is the world's biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.


In 1865, Frederik Idestam founded a wood-pulp mill in southern Finland, naming it Nokia. It rapidly gained worldwide recognition, attracting a large number of workforce and the town Nokia was born. In 1898, the Finnish Rubber Works company opened in Nokia, taking on the town name in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. In 1967, the companies consolidated to become the Nokia Group. The recession of the 1990s led the group to focus on the mobile phone market.

No comments: