Birthdays are times for giving gifts, but what does one buy the country that has everything? Something BIG, of course. As we mark this 236th national birthday, DailyFinance decided to take a look back at America's biggest gifts to itself.
America is $15.5 trillion dollars in the red. So why is the Pentagon buying military hardware that no one wants or needs?
Leap Day is essentially an astronomical cheat used to keep the Gregorian calendar synced up with the Earth's orbit. Yet while it's only a quarter as common as the other days of the year, it has had its fair share of financially significant events.
In the Mediterranean waters near Giglio, treasure hunters are preparing to dive after the lost loot of the Costa Concordia. But the riches that went down with that cruise ship pale next to what one wreck hunter thinks he's found off the coast of Massachusetts: $3 billion in platinum.
Russian billionaires are getting so rich that not even ordinary cell phones will do anymore. Danish company Aesir has created an 18-carat, limited edition cell phone that will retail for more than $57,000. The target buyer? Moscow's fashionistas and monied elite.
