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{"value":"950","label":"Global pharma market","description":"Global drugs market","source_name":"Forbes","source_link":"http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/07/12/the-global-drug-market-will-swell-to-1-2-trillion-while-big-pharma-treads-water/"},
{"value":"901","label":"US budget deficit","description":"2013","source_name":"BBC News","source_link":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17014744"},
{"value":"89.8","label":"China","description":"China defence, 2011","source_name":"IISS","source_link":"http://www.iiss.org/publications/military-balance/the-military-balance-2012/press-statement/figure-comparative-defence-statistics/"},
{"value":"740","label":"Tobacco","description":"Global tobacco industry revenue, 2011","source_name":"Euromonitor","source_link":"http://blog.euromonitor.com/2012/06/new-tobacco-research-what-is-it-telling-us.html"},
{"value":"739.3","label":"US","description":"US defence, 2011","source_name":"IISS","source_link":"http://www.iiss.org/publications/military-balance/the-military-balance-2012/press-statement/figure-comparative-defence-statistics/"},
{"value":"73","label":"Carlos Slim Helu","description":"Carlos Slim Helu, richest man in the world, net worth, 2013","source_name":"Forbes","source_link":"http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mel45ghdi/carlos-slim-helu-2/"},
{"value":"672","label":"Illegal drugs market","description":"Global revenue, 2009","source_name":"Morss, Global Finance PhD (2009)","source_link":"http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-economics-of-the-global-entertainment-industry/"},
{"value":"67","label":"Bill Gates ","description":"Bill Gates net worth, 2013","source_name":"Forbes","source_link":"http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/"},
{"value":"67","label":"Video games","description":"Global revenue, 2012","source_name":"Forbes","source_link":"http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/18/new-reports-forecasts-global-video-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/"},
{"value":"650","label":"Eurozone rescue fund","description":"","source_name":"BBC News","source_link":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19868868"},
{"value":"64","label":"Movies","description":"Global consumer spending on movies, 2012","source_name":"IP & TV News","source_link":"http://www.iptv-news.com/2013/01/worldwide-consumer-spending-on-movies-up-in-2012/"},
{"value":"60","label":"Alt Medicine","description":"Alternative Medicine Global market, 2011","source_name":"The Economist","source_link":"http://www.economist.com/node/18712290"},
{"value":"5700","label":"Global healthcare budget","description":"","source_name":"Tackle Tax Havens","source_link":"http://www.tackletaxhavens.com/Cost_of_Tax_Abuse_TJN_Research_23rd_Nov_2011.pdf"},
{"value":"557.1","label":"Afghanistan cost for US","description":"","source_name":"Guardian datablog","source_link":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/mar/14/iraq-ten-years-visualised"},
{"value":"55","label":"Predicted cost 2003","description":"Iraq War, predicted cost,2003","source_name":"NY Times","source_link":"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/washington/19cost.html"},
{"value":"523.5","label":"Beer","description":"Global, by 2015","source_name":"Report Linker","source_link":"http://www.reportlinker.com/ci02015/Beer.html"},
{"value":"5152","label":"UN budget","description":"UN Budget, 2012-13","source_name":"UN","source_link":"http://www.un.org/en/hq/dm/pdfs/oppba/Regular%20Budget.pdf"},
{"value":"500","label":"Apple","description":"Apple market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"499.5","label":"Fast food restaurants","description":"Global fast food restaurant revenues, 2012","source_name":"IBIS World","source_link":"http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/global/global-fast-food-restaurants.html"},
{"value":"4900","label":"Developing countries foreign debt","description":"2011","source_name":"World Bank","source_link":"http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/12/20/world-bank-releases-international-debt-statistics"},
{"value":"486","label":"US space programme (1959-2015)","description":"US space programmes, 1959-2015 (inflation-adjusted)","source_name":"The Space Review","source_link":"http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1579/1"},
{"value":"484","label":"Medicare","description":"US federal medicare budget, 2012","source_name":"Washington Post","source_link":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/17/the-state-of-medicaid-in-charts/"},
{"value":"419","label":"Gambling","description":"Global gambling revenues, 2011","source_name":"Global Betting & Gaming Consultancy","source_link":"http://www.gbgc.com/2012/02/2011-global-gambling-revenues-passed-us-400-billion/"},
{"value":"410","label":"Cannabis","description":"Global revenue","source_name":"Morss, Global Finance PhD (2009)","source_link":"http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-economics-of-the-global-entertainment-industry/"},
{"value":"41.73","label":"Apple profit","description":"Apple profit, 2012","source_name":"Market Watch","source_link":"http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/aapl/financials"},
{"value":"400","label":"Prostitution","description":"Global revenue, 2009","source_name":"Morss, Global Finance PhD (2009)","source_link":"http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-economics-of-the-global-entertainment-industry/"},
{"value":"364.66","label":"Worldwide TV industry","description":"Global revenue, 2009","source_name":"Idate","source_link":"http://www.idate.org/en/News/World-Television-Market_664.html"},
{"value":"3500","label":"To end extreme poverty within 20 years","description":"Total cost to end extreme poverty within 20 years","source_name":" The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sach","source_link":"http://www.visionofearth.org/economics/ending-poverty/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-extreme-poverty-in-the-world/"},
{"value":"337","label":"Cost of US tax evasion","description":"each year","source_name":"Tackle Tax Havens","source_link":"http://www.tackletaxhavens.com/Cost_of_Tax_Abuse_TJN_Research_23rd_Nov_2011.pdf"},
{"value":"32.6","label":"Bonuses for bankers","description":"$ paid out by 9 US banks that had received TARP funding (2008)","source_name":"Wall Street Journal","source_link":"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124896891815094085.html"},
{"value":"3100","label":"Annual cost of tax evasion","description":"Global tax evasion each year","source_name":"New Statesman","source_link":"http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/tax-avoidance-justice-network"},
{"value":"307","label":"US drug prescriptions","description":"US prescription drugs sales, 2010","source_name":"Pharmacy Times","source_link":"http://www.pharmacytimes.com/media/pdf/0cef8067f3c61e88911fa54924790d67.pdf"},
{"value":"3","label":"Climate Change Fund","description":"Climate Change Fund, 2007","source_name":"The Times","source_link":"http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article2181042.ece"},
{"value":"298.42","label":"Charitable donations by US public","description":"Charitable donations by US public, 2012","source_name":"Giving USA","source_link":"http://www.alysterling.com/documents/GUSA2012ExecutiveSummary.pdf"},
{"value":"26.5","label":"Walmart profit","description":"Walmart proft, 2012","source_name":"Walmart Stores","source_link":"http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/annual-report/2012/financials.aspx"},
{"value":"24","label":"Development Aid","description":"UN Development Aid","source_name":"UN","source_link":"http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/pdf/2012_funding_report-figures_and_tables.pdf"},
{"value":"228","label":"Walmart","description":"Walmart market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"224","label":"Microsoft","description":"Microsoft market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"21000","label":"Money in offshore tax havens","description":"Money in offshore tax havens by the end of 2010","source_name":"BBC News","source_link":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18944097"},
{"value":"2100","label":"Organised crime","description":"Worldwide turnover of organised crime","source_name":"UNODC","source_link":"http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/Illicit_financial_flows_2011_web.pdf"},
{"value":"200","label":"Africa's foreign debt","description":"","source_name":"Africa Action","source_link":"http://www.africaaction.org/cancel-africas-debt.html"},
{"value":"190","label":"US cost of obesity","description":"Social cost of obesity-related illnesses, US each year","source_name":"Harvard School of Public Health","source_link":"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/economic/"},
{"value":"187","label":"Google","description":"Google market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"175","label":"Ebay sales","description":"Ebay sales, 2012","source_name":"Ebay inc","source_link":"http://investor.ebayinc.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=733959%20"},
{"value":"175","label":"US TARP Banks bailout","description":"US gov's 'Troubled Asset Relief Program' for 9 major US banks","source_name":"Wall Street Journal","source_link":"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124896891815094085.html"},
{"value":"17.8","label":"NASA","description":"NASA annual budget, 2012","source_name":"NASA","source_link":"http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/659660main_NASA_FY13_Budget_Estimates-508-rev.pdf"},
{"value":"17.6","label":"BP profit","description":"2012 underlying replacement cost profit","source_name":"BP Quarterly Reports","source_link":"http://www.bp.com/extendedgenericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7083528"},
{"value":"1617","label":"Global military spending","description":"Global defence expenditure, 2011","source_name":"See a breakdown","source_link":"http://dev.informationisbeautiful.net/military-budgets-billions/"},
{"value":"15000","label":"Global financial crisis","description":"Total global losses from the financial crisis","source_name":"Wall Street Journal","source_link":"http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/10/01/total-global-losses-from-financial-crisis-15-trillion/"},
{"value":"14710","label":"US foreign debt","description":"2011","source_name":"CIA World Factbook","source_link":"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html"},
{"value":"1375","label":"losses from US residential mortgage loans","description":"","source_name":"Wall Street Journal","source_link":"http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/10/01/total-global-losses-from-financial-crisis-15-trillion/"},
{"value":"132","label":"BP","description":"BP market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"1280","label":"The War on Terror","description":"","source_name":"Huffington Post","source_link":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-war-on-terror-costs_n_856390.html"},
{"value":"122","label":"Cocaine","description":"Global revenue, 2009","source_name":"Morss, Global Finance PhD (2009)","source_link":"http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/the-economics-of-the-global-entertainment-industry/"},
{"value":"1200","label":"US healthcare","description":"US total healthcare (state, federal & local government)","source_name":"US government spending","source_link":"http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/current_spending"},
{"value":"1161.8","label":"Alcohol industry","description":"Global value, 2011","source_name":"Market Link","source_link":"http://www.reportlinker.com/p0171893-summary/Alcoholic-Drinks-Global-Industry-Guide.html"},
{"value":"113","label":"Amazon","description":"Amazon market capitalisation, 2012","source_name":"Financial Times Global 500 Dec 2012","source_link":"http://media.ft.com/cms/2a53e388-569a-11e2-aa70-00144feab49a.pdf"},
{"value":"1027","label":"OPEC revenue","description":"2011 net oil export revenues","source_name":"Energy Information Administration","source_link":"http://www.eia.gov/countries/regions-topics.cfm?fips=OPEC"},
{"value":"1000","label":"The War on Drugs","description":"Total spent on US war on drugs, since 1971 (inflation adjusted)","source_name":"CNN","source_link":"http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/06/opinion/branson-end-war-on-drugs"},
{"value":"14","label":"Italian Mafia revenue","description":"Italian Mafia criminal activities","source_name":"Reuters","source_link":"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/us-italy-mafia-idUSBRE90G1CV20130117"}
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