More than 1 million homes are expected to enter foreclosure this year -- so that's at least 125,000 renters evicted...

Indian-Americans are even more dominant in budget properties, owning about 60% of these hotels/motels.

There are only four MBAs in the top 50.

Low-fare carrier AirTran charges companies as much as $50,000 a month to advertise on napkins.

More than 1.5 million personal bankruptcies were filed this year (Illness and medical bills accounted for half of these). A sidenote -- more families with children will file for bankruptcy than divorce.

That's about 100 pieces of mail to every person in America!

If the USPS was a private company, it would be the tenth largest in America, with 234,033 mail carriers delivering mail each day.

Over the past four years, stocks that the Street has been telling you to sell have risen 19% per year on average. Meanwhile, the "buys" and "holds" have risen just 7%.

The average fee for merchants accepting AMEX is $2.50 per $100 charged, while it is only $2.00 per $100 charged for Visa or MasterCard.

There are 7.73 million small and medium-sized business, of which the majority (76%) have fewer than 10 employees!

However, only 3% of female-owned businesses generate revenue of over 1 million dollars.

Some 114 million carats of diamonds are produced every year and, with new mines coming onstream and others being expanded, that should rise to about 120 million in 2005. And 80% of the diamonds dug out of the ground end up being used in industry.

The reason they seem scarce is that up until recently, De Beers controlled 80% of the world's supply. Catch-phrases such as “Diamonds are Forever” and adverts insisting men spend two months’ salary on a ring for their fiancée created the myth that diamonds are a scarce, valuable resource.

With this deal, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple and CEO of Pixar, will also become the largest shareholder of Disney (at 6.6% of shares outstanding)!

The sound on NBC when they hit the peacock feathers (dum-dum-dum) is the sound of the musical notes G-E-C. General Electric Corporation (GEC) owns NBC.

Defined-benefit pensions are a guaranteed source of income, an assurance that no matter how long you live you will continue to collect a check. Social Security provides inflation-adjusted payments for life.

Similarly, over the past ten years, small businesses have created between 60 and 80 percent of new jobs in the country.

The 280,000 financial sector workers collect more than half of all the wages paid in Manhattan, although they hold less than 1 in 6 of Manhattan jobs.

The same source provided a breakout of food service (eat-in vs. drive thru, etc.) in a fact from last May.

According to a 2004 survey on cause marketing done by Boston brand-strategy firm Cone, 91% of 1,033 consumers say they have a more positive image of a company or product when it supports a cause and 90% will actually consider switching if it's aligned with a cause.

Assuming a 40-hour workweek, this is the equivalent of almost $340,000 an hour.

According to an old fact, 1 out of 128 Americans is a millionaire.

Income groups with the highest percentage of audits were taxpayers who reported income less than $25,000 (1.5% were audited) and between $100,000 and $200,000 (1.4% were audited).

The company invented cellular technology and marketing the first commercial handheld cell phone in 1983, the DynaTac (aka "the Zack Morris phone").

Take a look at PepsiCo's full list of brands.

Consumers also plan to spend an average of $87 each on gifts for themselves.

Tesco claims 12.3% of the total retail market in the UK. It has been on a rampage since 1995, when it overtook Sainsbury to become the UK's largest supermarket. Tesco was founded in 1924.

Worldwide, QVC received 192 million phone calls last year.