China says it plans to increase military spending by nearly 18% this year, to 417.8bn yuan ($59bn; £30bn). picked by topofall 6 months ago

This is an article about an experiment where people decided to see if they could stop spending money on non-essential items for a month. In general, people saved about $300. Everyone learned to really tell the difference between want and need.

(I'm so going to do this, btw) picked by imnotyoo 4 months ago

"World" category surrenders to "War" as China boosts military spending by 17.8 percent this year. EVERYBODY PANIC! picked by MaskedWriter 1 year ago

A La Vista man was charged with felony theft after he spent $80,000 his bank deposited by mistake in his account. It is a crime to take money that's been "delivered under a mistake." picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

37signals, the web design company as well as the operators of Signal vs. Noise, a well known blog, are offering their employees 4-day work weeks as well as a credit card for discretionary spending and will help pay for a special hobby or dream they may have. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

A nice pick-me-up for those who worry that Consumerism is fading away. picked by kirbykirst 7 months ago

Not THAT American Pie. This game is an educational tool to show how every taxpayer's dollar actually gets divided up by the federal government.

51% of discretionary spending goes to national defense???
Compared with 4% to veterans benefits and services??? picked by mahler87 7 months ago

Despite high fuel costs and rising food prices, 'vice' spending remains healthy. picked by Bornbad 6 days ago

Public spending watchdogs in the US have slammed NASA for having such terrible property control procedures that employees have "lost" $94m worth of kit in the last decade. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

These maps show the world how it really is - with the countries either shrunk or blown out of proportion, depending on the chosen parameter (e.g. wealth, military spending, toy exports). picked by Kitsune86 1 year ago

Try to control government spending. Can you make your people happy? picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Principal defends spending $2,300 on grooming, physical therapy, says dog helps "educate students". picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

Invisible armor, sleepless pills, gay bombs, sharks with friggin laser beams attached to their head....and the list goes on... picked by secretsather 1 year ago

Because all the roads are repaired, schools are turning in impeccable grades, and our poor are taken care of and housed, they thought it was ok to drop some serious cash on these. Haha. picked by MuppetmakeR 7 months ago

A prison is spending £10,000 on "hole in the ground" toilets because some foreign inmates hate sitting down when they go.
WTF is the world coming too!!!!! picked by nesbyniccolo 1 year ago

Try $4.6 trillion. 19-times the size of the gimmicked 'official' deficit for 2006 of $248 billion. picked by Boomshank 2 years ago

House Democrats are planning another veto showdown with President Bush on the Iraq war. And this time, they say they won't back down.

*I'm not holding my breath. picked by dollyllama 10 months ago

How do you compare? picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

In the last two weeks alone, Iraq has made purchase requests totaling $10.9 billion.

And now comes a purchase request coming in at $2.16 billion. So just what does $2.16 billion buy us theses days?? Well according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency: picked by hmtksteve 3 weeks ago

The measure would provide $60 billion over the next five years, $35 billion more than current spending and $30 billion more than the president proposed. Mr. Bush and his backers argue that the bill would be a step toward federalization of health care, and that it would steer the program away from its core purpose of providing insurance for poor children and toward covering children from middle-cla... read full post picked by marli 9 months ago