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The next time you hear about how many people have lost their jobs and their homes...The next time we hear that we are in a depression unlike anything since the DEPRESSION OF 1932, please consider the following information clipped from artdailynews. org.

The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie’s London on 20 June 2012 realised £92,583,550 / $145,541,341/ € 114,618,435, selling 80% by lot and 84% by value. The auction had a pre-sale estimate of £74.5 million to £108.7 million. The top price was paid for Femme assise, 1949, by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) which sold for £8,553,250/ $13,445,709/ €10,588,924

While all the alleged authorities were wagging their tongues about the economic woes that had befallen the United States and the rest of the world in the year we shall call 2010, an auction record was broken by the approximate numbers:
The most money ever paid for an American comic book had been $350,000 until 2010.
At that time, $1,100,000 was paid for a DC Comic Book featuring a Superhero we shall call x. But the following month, that record was broken when a DC comic book featuring Superhero y sold for $1,100,005.59
My numbers might be slightly off but the ratio of the first sale to the pre-existing record was essentially 3:1

I find this information comically undepressing and I love bubbled water!

But what was it that George Carlin said about Evian, a popular and expensive sparkling water:

Evian spellt backwards is NAIVE!