$3 billion is the value of export orders BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between the governments of India and Russia, has already placed for its new cruise missile, test-fired yesterday. There is “no plan to accept the conditions of the Missile Technology Control Regime.”
$18.8 million is how much Summit Builders Construction of Phoenix, Arizona, will get from the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a new, 450-man Border Patrol facility and a “major upgrade” to an existing facility in the town of Naco, on the Mexican border.
$39 billion is one guess how much Mexican cartels earn from illegal drug sales in the US each year.
$7 million is how much Tony Blair was paid for his debut crime novel.
$7 million is how much George W Bush was paid for his.
$87.5 million is how much the Pentagon spent last year on “media information products” (pdf)