1.  The total number of pages in the financial reform bill enacted by Congress in July: 848

2.    Number of pages that created the Federal Trade Commission: 8

3.   Net change in the amount of money kept in U.S. stock-based mutual funds  since 2007: -$249.4 billion

4.    Share of all revenue earned by S&P 500 companies in 2009 that came from outside the United States: 47%

5.    Number of states whose pension plans were fully funded in 2000: 26

6.    Number of states whose pension plans are funded in 2010: 3

7.    Change in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since Dec. 11, 1987, the release of Oliver Stone's original "Wall Street," through the recent release of its sequel, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": +8,727 points

8.   Gifts United States taxpayers donated to the government in 2009 to help retire the national debt, the largest sum since the government began accepting such gifts in 1961: $3.1 million

9.    Number of cars GM sold in the U.S. in the first half of 2010: 1.08 million

10.  Number of cars GM sold in China for the same period: 1.21 million

Sources: 1 & 2 House Senate Historical Office; 3 Investment Company Institute; 4 Standard & Poor's; 5-6 Pew Center on the States; 7 Consumer Reports; 8 Bureau of the Public Department; 9 & 10 Chicago Tribune.