[Finance fact 1] Dolly Parton gave each family who lost its primary residence in the 2016 Tennessee fires $1,000 a month for five months. When she arrived to help dole out the final payments, she brought the nearly 900 families an unexpected bonus – another $5,000 each for a total of $10,000.
[Finance fact 2] In the housing bubble of 2006 and 2007, banks began to give “NINJA mortgages”—housing loans to people with No Income, No Job, No Assets.
[Finance fact 3] The term “blue stock chip” originated from gambling. In poker, the blue-colored chip represents the most expensive chip at the table.
[Finance fact 4] The dollar sign may come from the Spanish peso or pieces of eight. This Spanish dollar was accepted as money in the U.S. until 1857 and could be used whole or cut into halves, quarters, and eights. Other scholars say that the dollar sign is the initial U and S (for the United States) stuck one on top of each other.
[Finance fact 5] Research indicates that shopping has a direct effect on the brain’s pleasure centers. It can flood the brain with dopamine, similar to the way a drug addict experiences a fix.
[Finance fact 6] The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has been the world’s largest bank for almost a decade. The bank has around $4 trillion in assets and employs almost half a million people.
[Finance fact 7] Forrest Gump's net worth would be 7 billion dollars due to his initial investment in Apple Computers
[Finance fact 8] Abraham Lincoln was the first American to be pictured on an American coin in 1909. The designer Victor David Brenner put his initial VDB at the base of the portrait on Lincoln’s arm.
[Finance fact 9] IN 1997, the US bought Russian MIG-29's fighter jets from Moldova so Iran couldn't get the technology.
[Finance fact 10] In most countries, banks are legally obligated to keep legal tender (coin and paper money printed by the government) in reserve so that patrons can exchange “bank money” (checks and credit card payments) for actual currency whenever they request it.
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