ledger |ˈlejər| noun 1 a book or other collection of financial accounts of a particular type… 2 a flat stone slab covering a grave.
$5,700 per gram is evidently the going rate for black-market unenriched uranium. Prices will surely go down if they ever legalize it.
$50 million was the value of arms sales to Yemen by the US and UK last year, Amnesty figures. Military aircraft, mostly.
$1.3 billion is how much the US may spend in the coming year to build new military bases in Afghanistan. Wait—didn’t anyone tell the Pentagon? The withdrawal date is “firm.”
This weekend, I’ll look at who’s trying to get in on the base-building business.