Companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Nordstrom push their gift cards so hard for a reason: They make hundreds of millions of dollars per year collectively from something called "breakage". Star...
It can be argued that some Presidents step into very favorable situations when they first enter the White House, while others step into some massive headaches. President Ronald Reagan, for instanc...
The US Presidential election in 1984 remains one of the most lopsided victories in history. President Reagan ended up taking 525 electoral votes while his opponent, former Vice President Walter Mo...
It's hard to imagine a 28 year-old US senator given the fact that the average age of the Senate is currently 64 years old. In fact, there are currently four 80+ year-old US senators - Charles Gras...
There seems to be a great deal of confusion as to exactly how much money the United States has sent to Ukraine to help fund "OAR" (Operation Atlantic Resolve), aka Ukraine's defense against Russia. ...
The United States has the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which can store up to 714 million barrels of oil at a time. Canada? Canada has the Strategic Reserve of Maple Syrup (known formally as the In...
One of the biggest reasons that President Bill Clinton won the 1992 election was because of his promise to balance the federal budget. Economic growth had stalled in the United States and deficits...
As of this moment, the United States government (according to them) controls roughly 300 million ounces of gold, which is currently valued at around $900 billion. Of this amount, 147.3 million oun...
There have been a number of people who have served for more than a decade in a single Cabinet post. Names that include the likes of Albert Gallatin (Treasury), Frances Perkins (Labor) and Harold I...
Did you know that the government of Canada collected BILLIONS of dollars for a tax increase that never actually happened? In the year 2000, the Canadian Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Pa...
The Constitution of the United States requires that the President receive "compensation" for his services "which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have bee...
Cover your eyes and hold your nose. According to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), which is a non-partisan organization that is tasked with providing analysis for the US Congress, the United ...
President Donald Trump recently teased that he could "perhaps" pursue a third Presidential term in 2028. As it stands right now, President Trump is barred from seeking a third term as President. T...
There is a good chance that you have never heard of Chagos Islands (or Chagos Archipelago), which is a 22 square mile group of islands in the Indian Ocean. Chagos Islands is an enormously importan...
In June of 1987, Senator Joe Biden from Delaware announced that he would be running for President in 1988. Senator Biden was considered one of the strongest candidates to win the Democratic nomina...