This book contains a distillation of eight plus years of both financial and cultural factoids abstracted from a plethora of sources and was originally accumulated for the authors personal use. Friends have asked for copies so often that I decided to publish the material as the simplest solution and those that want copies can now get copies! The material is presented in factoid format (as accumulated by my self) over the 8 years from numerous sources, many with attribution. The core eight years (2008 - 2016) was a remarkable period in American history with continuous improvements in both the stock market and the employment picture.