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P&C insurers held $1.0T in reserves for claims on policies already written. Claims, costs, and dividends took 93.03% of 2025 premiums; investing earned $89.7B.

Of each 2025 output dollar, publishing (about 86% of it software publishers) left 41.3¢ as surplus; computer systems design paid staff 60.7¢ and left 10.3¢.

Banks earned 5.35% on earning assets and paid 2.03% to fund them (Q2 2026, annualized); of each $1 taken in, 22.7¢ went to depositors, 21.5¢ was net income.

Each $1 of the $6.49T spent on goods in 2025, in rounded cents: producer's price 47.5, for-hire freight 2.3, wholesalers 12.3, retailers 38.0 incl. sales tax.

Of $15.0T in one-to-four-family mortgages, $9.6T ran through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, other GSEs, and agency pools, which fund them by selling bonds.

Trucks carried 73.5% of the $18.0T of goods shipped in 2022; for-hire carriers alone were 44.8%, the largest single paid leg of the freight bill.

At least 80¢ of every premium dollar must buy care (85¢ large-group); the rest — admin, marketing, profit — is capped, and shortfalls get rebated.

Utilities now spend about as much moving electricity (4.3¢/kWh) as making it (4.6¢/kWh); delivery costs rose 65% in a decade while production costs fell.

Of every dollar spent on domestically produced food, the farm kept about 11.8 cents in 2024; the other 88 cents paid for everything after the farm gate.

A $2.16-trillion-a-year chain: owners and governments pay in, a general contractor assembles the job, and subcontractors do most of the building.