50 Numra te mahnitshem rreth Ekonomise Amerikane

[loneeagle]

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50. From 1948 until 2007, the average duration of unemployment was 13.5 weeks. Today, it's 40.5 weeks.

49. In 1982, a 30-year mortgage carried an interest rate of 17.6%. Today, it's 4.1%. On a $250,000 loan, that's the difference between a monthly payment of $3,686 versus $1,210.

48. In 2000, 69% of businesses offered workers health insurance. By 2009, just 60% did, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

47. In 1952, corporate taxes were 6.1% of GDP, and employment taxes were 1.8% of GDP. In 2009, corporate taxes were 1% of GDP, and employment taxes were 6.3% of GDP.

46. The day after Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. Treasuries was the second best day for Treasuries in modern history.

45. "Just 1 in 7 U.S. workers is of normal weight without a chronic health problem," according to The Wall Street Journal, citing Gallup data.

44. Adjusted for inflation, nationwide home prices have dropped 8.5% since 1979. Unrelated: 60% of homeowners say a major reason they bought a home is because they think it will make a good retirement investment.

43. The markup AT&T (NYSE: T ) charges for a single text message ($0.20) compared with a standard mobile data package ($25 for 2 gigs) is roughly 10 million percent.

42. Tax evasion has added an estimated $3 trillion to the national debt over the past decade, according to David Callahan of Demos, citing Internal Revenue Service data.

41. According to The Wall Street Journal, "every year 17,000 American-trained masters and doctoral students leave the U.S. to find work elsewhere."

40. Over the past 25 years, college tuition has increased at nearly four times the rate of broader inflation.

39. Health care for an average family now runs $19,393 a year, according to the Milliman Medical Index. It was about half that much in 2002.

38. Power to the people! According to The Los Angeles Times: "Some 75% of respondents said they were following the [California] budget debate, yet only 16% were aware that state spending has shrunk by billions of dollars over the last three years."

37. California will spend $5.7 billion on its main public universities this year, and $9.6 billion on prisons, according to The Bay Citizen.

36. The labor force participation rate for men has dropped from 87% in 1948 to 71% today.

35. The personal savings rate in August was 4.5%. Since 1959, it has averaged 7%. Returning to that level would divert more than $200 billion a year from consumer spending into saving.

34. 5.5 million Americans are unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefits. Last year, that number was 1.4 million.

33. The U.S. government provides health care for a minority of its population (elderly and poor) at a greater cost per citizen than many European countries spend on universal coverage.

32. As a percentage of GDP, federal taxes in 2010 were the lowest since 1950.

31. Between 2007 and 2009, those with a bachelor's degree saw the employment-to-population ratio fall by just 0.5%. For those without a bachelor's degree, it fell by more than 2%.

30. Household debt payments as a percentage of income are now at the lowest level since 1994.

29. Despite record federal deficits, total debt throughout the economy -- public plus private -- as a percentage of GDP has been dropping since 2008. Households are shedding debt faster than the government can go into it.

28. Just not student debt: Total student loans outstanding are expected to reach $1 trillion this year. The average student now leaves college with nearly $23,000 of debt. As Time pointed out, "Students today are borrowing double the amount they did ten years ago -- after adjusting for inflation.

27. Total state and local pension shortfalls now equal $4.4 trillion, according to State Budget Solutions.

26. In 2000, interest payments on the national debt totaled $222 billion. By 2009, the debt had more than doubled, but interest payments were $186 billion. Lower interest rates have saved taxpayers trillions of dollars.

25. According to The New York Times, only 23% of Americans benefit from the mortgage interest tax deduction, yet 93% support it.

24. For every $1,000 decline in home values, Americans reduce spending by $20 to $70 a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

23. Without mortgage equity withdrawal -- people using their homes as ATMs -- the U.S. economy would have been in recession for most of the 2001-2006 period.

22. The percentage of Americans covered by health insurance fell from 86.9% in 2000 to 83.7% in 2010. It has declined in eight of the past 10 years.

21. Nationwide real estate values have declined by about $7 trillion since 2006.

20. CEOs of S&P 500 companies are entitled to receive an average of $22 million upon being fired, according to GMI. "In total, it would cost shareholders $10.8 billion to fire the CEOs of all of the companies in the S&P 500," it writes.

19. One percent of households captured 52% of all income gains from 1993-2008.

18. Just 400 people earned 10% of all capital gains in 2007. Between 2000 and 2007, the top 400 taxpayers captured about 2% of all economic growth.

17. People spend their money on different sets of goods and services. The richest 10% of Americans had an inflation rate that was about 6% higher than the bottom 10% between 1994 and 2005.

16. According to former White House budget advisor Peter Orszag: "In 1990, about 63 percent of business income in the U.S. took the form of wages and other types of labor compensation. ... By 2005, that figure had dropped to 61 percent. And by the middle of this year, it had fallen to 58 percent. ... The difference from 1990 to today -- about 5 percentage points or so of private-sector income -- amounts to more than $500 billion a year."

15. Private jobs growth over the past two years has been faster than it was from 2001-2003. Public job losses have been a major factor in our current jobs crisis.

14. If federal, state, and local governments hadn't been slashing jobs since 2009, today's unemployment rate would be nearly a full percentage point lower.

13. The White House -- famously optimistic throughout all administrations -- forecasts that the unemployment rate won't return to pre-recession levels until 2016.

12. According to the National Review, "[General Motors (NYSE: GM ) ] has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people."

11. While gold hit record highs this summer, the yield on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, implied a forecast of near record low inflation.

10. According to author Matt Ridley, it took an average person 4,700 hours of work to afford a Ford (NYSE: F ) Model T in 1908. Today, it takes an average person 1,000 hours of work to afford an ordinary car.

9. Adjusted for inflation, the first Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) Macintosh cost $5,440. Today's iPad costs $500, and is outrageously more advanced.

8. About half of all Tweets are derived from 20,000 people -- or just 0.05% of Twitter members.

7. UBS estimates that illegal lending in China amounts to $630 billion a year, or about 10% of the country's gross domestic product.

6. Only 2.7% of what Americans spend their money on are goods and services from China. 88.5% is on American-made goods and services.

5. Cash flow among S&P 500 companies set a new all-time record last year, at $1.2 trillion.

4. Between dividends and buybacks, S&P 500 companies returned $4.3 trillion to shareholders from 2003 to 2010.

3. According to the Hedge Fund Research index, hedge funds as a group returned 19.6% between March 2009 and May 2011. Broad stock market indexes in the developed world returned 114% during that period.

2. Food prices invariably come up when people talk about inflation. But average disposable income has risen twice as fast as food prices over the past 50 years. There's been fairly steady food deflation over time.

1. America is still by far the largest economy in the world, nearly three times the size of China's or Japan's economy, and nearly five times the size of Germany's. We have the best schools, the deepest financial system, the most advanced innovation, and the brightest entrepreneurs.

source: http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-economy-.aspx

[FreeByrd]

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Some interesting numbers on this article. Did you know that...



50. From 1948 until 2007, the average duration of unemployment was 13.5 weeks. Today, it's 40.5 weeks.

49. In 1982, a 30-year mortgage carried an interest rate of 17.6%. Today, it's 4.1%. On a $250,000 loan, that's the difference between a monthly payment of $3,686 versus $1,210.

48. In 2000, 69% of businesses offered workers health insurance. By 2009, just 60% did, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

47. In 1952, corporate taxes were 6.1% of GDP, and employment taxes were 1.8% of GDP. In 2009, corporate taxes were 1% of GDP, and employment taxes were 6.3% of GDP.

46. The day after Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. Treasuries was the second best day for Treasuries in modern history.

45. "Just 1 in 7 U.S. workers is of normal weight without a chronic health problem," according to The Wall Street Journal, citing Gallup data.

44. Adjusted for inflation, nationwide home prices have dropped 8.5% since 1979. Unrelated: 60% of homeowners say a major reason they bought a home is because they think it will make a good retirement investment.

43. The markup AT&T (NYSE: T ) charges for a single text message ($0.20) compared with a standard mobile data package ($25 for 2 gigs) is roughly 10 million percent.

42. Tax evasion has added an estimated $3 trillion to the national debt over the past decade, according to David Callahan of Demos, citing Internal Revenue Service data.

41. According to The Wall Street Journal, "every year 17,000 American-trained masters and doctoral students leave the U.S. to find work elsewhere."

40. Over the past 25 years, college tuition has increased at nearly four times the rate of broader inflation.

39. Health care for an average family now runs $19,393 a year, according to the Milliman Medical Index. It was about half that much in 2002.

38. Power to the people! According to The Los Angeles Times: "Some 75% of respondents said they were following the [California] budget debate, yet only 16% were aware that state spending has shrunk by billions of dollars over the last three years."

37. California will spend $5.7 billion on its main public universities this year, and $9.6 billion on prisons, according to The Bay Citizen.

36. The labor force participation rate for men has dropped from 87% in 1948 to 71% today.

35. The personal savings rate in August was 4.5%. Since 1959, it has averaged 7%. Returning to that level would divert more than $200 billion a year from consumer spending into saving.

34. 5.5 million Americans are unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefits. Last year, that number was 1.4 million.

33. The U.S. government provides health care for a minority of its population (elderly and poor) at a greater cost per citizen than many European countries spend on universal coverage.

32. As a percentage of GDP, federal taxes in 2010 were the lowest since 1950.

31. Between 2007 and 2009, those with a bachelor's degree saw the employment-to-population ratio fall by just 0.5%. For those without a bachelor's degree, it fell by more than 2%.

30. Household debt payments as a percentage of income are now at the lowest level since 1994.

29. Despite record federal deficits, total debt throughout the economy -- public plus private -- as a percentage of GDP has been dropping since 2008. Households are shedding debt faster than the government can go into it.

28. Just not student debt: Total student loans outstanding are expected to reach $1 trillion this year. The average student now leaves college with nearly $23,000 of debt. As Time pointed out, "Students today are borrowing double the amount they did ten years ago -- after adjusting for inflation.

27. Total state and local pension shortfalls now equal $4.4 trillion, according to State Budget Solutions.

26. In 2000, interest payments on the national debt totaled $222 billion. By 2009, the debt had more than doubled, but interest payments were $186 billion. Lower interest rates have saved taxpayers trillions of dollars.

25. According to The New York Times, only 23% of Americans benefit from the mortgage interest tax deduction, yet 93% support it.

24. For every $1,000 decline in home values, Americans reduce spending by $20 to $70 a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

23. Without mortgage equity withdrawal -- people using their homes as ATMs -- the U.S. economy would have been in recession for most of the 2001-2006 period.

22. The percentage of Americans covered by health insurance fell from 86.9% in 2000 to 83.7% in 2010. It has declined in eight of the past 10 years.

21. Nationwide real estate values have declined by about $7 trillion since 2006.

20. CEOs of S&P 500 companies are entitled to receive an average of $22 million upon being fired, according to GMI. "In total, it would cost shareholders $10.8 billion to fire the CEOs of all of the companies in the S&P 500," it writes.

19. One percent of households captured 52% of all income gains from 1993-2008.

18. Just 400 people earned 10% of all capital gains in 2007. Between 2000 and 2007, the top 400 taxpayers captured about 2% of all economic growth.

17. People spend their money on different sets of goods and services. The richest 10% of Americans had an inflation rate that was about 6% higher than the bottom 10% between 1994 and 2005.

16. According to former White House budget advisor Peter Orszag: "In 1990, about 63 percent of business income in the U.S. took the form of wages and other types of labor compensation. ... By 2005, that figure had dropped to 61 percent. And by the middle of this year, it had fallen to 58 percent. ... The difference from 1990 to today -- about 5 percentage points or so of private-sector income -- amounts to more than $500 billion a year."

15. Private jobs growth over the past two years has been faster than it was from 2001-2003. Public job losses have been a major factor in our current jobs crisis.

14. If federal, state, and local governments hadn't been slashing jobs since 2009, today's unemployment rate would be nearly a full percentage point lower.

13. The White House -- famously optimistic throughout all administrations -- forecasts that the unemployment rate won't return to pre-recession levels until 2016.

12. According to the National Review, "[General Motors (NYSE: GM ) ] has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people."

11. While gold hit record highs this summer, the yield on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, implied a forecast of near record low inflation.

10. According to author Matt Ridley, it took an average person 4,700 hours of work to afford a Ford (NYSE: F ) Model T in 1908. Today, it takes an average person 1,000 hours of work to afford an ordinary car.

9. Adjusted for inflation, the first Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) Macintosh cost $5,440. Today's iPad costs $500, and is outrageously more advanced.

8. About half of all Tweets are derived from 20,000 people -- or just 0.05% of Twitter members.

7. UBS estimates that illegal lending in China amounts to $630 billion a year, or about 10% of the country's gross domestic product.

6. Only 2.7% of what Americans spend their money on are goods and services from China. 88.5% is on American-made goods and services.

5. Cash flow among S&P 500 companies set a new all-time record last year, at $1.2 trillion.

4. Between dividends and buybacks, S&P 500 companies returned $4.3 trillion to shareholders from 2003 to 2010.

3. According to the Hedge Fund Research index, hedge funds as a group returned 19.6% between March 2009 and May 2011. Broad stock market indexes in the developed world returned 114% during that period.

2. Food prices invariably come up when people talk about inflation. But average disposable income has risen twice as fast as food prices over the past 50 years. There's been fairly steady food deflation over time.

1. America is still by far the largest economy in the world, nearly three times the size of China's or Japan's economy, and nearly five times the size of Germany's. We have the best schools, the deepest financial system, the most advanced innovation, and the brightest entrepreneurs.

source: http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-economy-.aspx

I thank you for this information.

You've quantified a lot a important indicators about our lives but I exist in real world outside of numbers and I report the American people are suffering with high unemployment, low interest rates for savings, ultra high fuel costs, increasing educational costs, violent urban crime, sky rocketing healthcare costs, a shaky stock market and our confidence in elected leaders including the President. the Congress and local politicians is at an all time low. We're living in unique times. This will be the first generation that will have a lower standard of living than our parents.
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Unë ju falenderoj për këtë informacion.

Ju keni të përcaktohet një shumë një tregues të rëndësishëm për jetën tonë, por unë të ekzistojë në botën reale e jashtme e numrave dhe të raportoj popullit amerikan janë duke vuajtur me papunësi të lartë, normat e ulëta të interesit për kursimet, shpenzimet e ultra të lartë të karburantit, duke rritur shpenzimet e arsimit, të dhunshme urbane , krimi i qielli rocketing kostos së kujdesit shëndetësor, një treg të dobët e aksioneve dhe besimit tonë në liderët e zgjedhur duke përfshirë edhe Presidentin.politikanët Kongresit dhe lokale është në një kohë të gjitha të ulët. Ne jemi duke jetuar në kohë të veçantë. Kjo do të jetë brezi i parë që do të ketë një standard të ulët të jetesës se prindërit tanë.

[loneeagle]

39. Health care for an average family now runs $19,393 a year, according to the Milliman Medical Index. It was about half that much in 2002.


I believe health care cost has sky rocket just as stated in the article. As for the unemployment rate, believe it or not a lot of people just don't care to go look for a job as the 2 year unemployment program is working better for them with an under the table job of course. A lot of people are abusing this as it is suppose to be a relief program not a way of living off of it. I do believe the economy is not very good, however i also believe that is not as bad as they claim. I hope in the future things will get better, but we will see only time will tell.

[the admiral]

39. Health care for an average family now runs $19,393 a year, according to the Milliman Medical Index. It was about half that much in 2002.

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amazing.
I think health care system in the US really sucks...

[FreeByrd]

amazing.
I think health care system in the US really sucks...

The very worst part of the US healthcare system is the inflated prices and dangerous products showered on the American public by the Pharmaceutics Corporations.
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Pjesë shumë më e keqe e sistemit shëndetësor amerikan është çmime të fryra dhe të produkteve të rrezikshme showered në publikun amerikan nga korporatat farmaceutikës.

[Hyllien]

The very worst part of the US healthcare system is the inflated prices and dangerous products showered on the American public by the Pharmaceutics Corporations.
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Pjesë shumë më e keqe e sistemit shëndetësor amerikan është çmime të fryra dhe të produkteve të rrezikshme showered në publikun amerikan nga korporatat farmaceutikës.

No it's the illegal immigrants who are jacking up the prices. In California an appendix removal is about 50-60,000 USD(insane), in the east coast it's about 20K and under. And the list goes on and on. The hospital is spreading the risk. Ad US healthcare does not suck. If I pay my contribution and I need a scan, a surgery or smth right away I DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE, unlike the socialist countries who have collectivized everything and there's no incentive.

To say that US health care sucks is pure propaganda where we both know it's the best in the world if you are an active partecipant in the economy, ie. you pay taxes and you are a legal individual not an illegal one. I know a lot of Canadians that are paying upfront and come to US if they need a knee surgery, ankle, or something soon, that otherwise you'll need to wait for months in Canada.

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Nuk është e emigrantëve të paligjshëm që janë jacking deri çmimet. Në Kaliforni një largimi shtojcë është rreth 50-60,000 USD (çmendur), në bregun lindor është rreth 20K dhe nën. Dhe lista vazhdon dhe të.Spitali është përhapur rrezik. Ad SHBA kujdesit shëndetësor nuk do të thith. Nëse unë paguaj kontributin tim dhe kam nevojë për një hetim, një kirurgji ose një gjë e drejtë larg unë nuk duhet të presin në rradhë, ndryshe nga vendet socialiste të cilët kanë kolektivizuar çdo gjë dhe nuk ka asnjë nxitje.

Të thuash se kujdesi shëndetësor amerikan sucks është propagandë e pastër, ku ne të dy e dimë se është e mirë në botë, nëse ju jeni një partecipant aktive në ekonomi, dmth. ju paguani taksat dhe ju nuk jeni një individ ligjor një e paligjshme.

[FreeByrd]

No it's the illegal immigrants who are jacking up the prices. In California an appendix removal is about 50-60,000 USD(insane), in the east coast it's about 20K and under. And the list goes on and on. The hospital is spreading the risk. Ad US healthcare does not suck. If I pay my contribution and I need a scan, a surgery or smth right away I DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE, unlike the socialist countries who have collectivized everything and there's no incentive.

To say that US health care sucks is pure propaganda where we both know it's the best in the world if you are an active partecipant in the economy, ie. you pay taxes and you are a legal individual not an illegal one. I know a lot of Canadians that are paying upfront and come to US if they need a knee surgery, ankle, or something soon, that otherwise you'll need to wait for months in Canada.

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Nuk është e emigrantëve të paligjshëm që janë jacking deri çmimet. Në Kaliforni një largimi shtojcë është rreth 50-60,000 USD (çmendur), në bregun lindor është rreth 20K dhe nën. Dhe lista vazhdon dhe të.Spitali është përhapur rrezik. Ad SHBA kujdesit shëndetësor nuk do të thith. Nëse unë paguaj kontributin tim dhe kam nevojë për një hetim, një kirurgji ose një gjë e drejtë larg unë nuk duhet të presin në rradhë, ndryshe nga vendet socialiste të cilët kanë kolektivizuar çdo gjë dhe nuk ka asnjë nxitje.

Të thuash se kujdesi shëndetësor amerikan sucks është propagandë e pastër, ku ne të dy e dimë se është e mirë në botë, nëse ju jeni një partecipant aktive në ekonomi, dmth. ju paguani taksat dhe ju nuk jeni një individ ligjor një e paligjshme.

Illegal immigrants have no relation to the Pharmaceutical Corporations pushing unneeded products on the American public. Their power and greed is out of control Its almost laughable what new wonder drugs their Research and Development departments are inventing for an unsuspecting public. They've got new medications from deadly dandruff control to deadly foot fungus. LOL These Corporations spend more time on their commercials listing deadly side effects than explaining the benefits of the product.

Bottom line is these Lords of Greed are running a scam on the American public.
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Emigrantë të paligjshëm kanë asnjë lidhje me korporatave farmaceutike shtyn produkteve të panevojshme në publikun amerikan. Pushtetin e tyre dhe lakmia është jashtë kontrollit. Pothuajse qesharake ajo që droga të reja çudi Hulumtim dhe Zhvillim departamentet janë shpikur për një publik që nuk dyshon e saj Ata kanë marrë medikamente të reja nga kontrolli i vdekjeprurëse zbokth për kërpudhat vdekjeprurëse këmbë. LOL këto korporata shpenzojnë më shumë kohë në reklama e tyre listë efekte anësore se sa vdekjeprurës shpjeguar përfitimet e produktit.

Bottom line eshte këto Lords of Greed jeni drejtimin e një scam në publikun amerikan.

[javan]

Illegal immigrants have no relation to the Pharmaceutical Corporations pushing unneeded products on the American public. Their power and greed is out of control Its almost laughable what new wonder drugs their Research and Development departments are inventing for an unsuspecting public. They've got new medications from deadly dandruff control to deadly foot fungus. LOL These Corporations spend more time on their commercials listing deadly side effects than explaining the benefits of the product.

Bottom line is these Lords of Greed are running a scam on the American public.
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Emigrantë të paligjshëm kanë asnjë lidhje me korporatave farmaceutike shtyn produkteve të panevojshme në publikun amerikan. Pushtetin e tyre dhe lakmia është jashtë kontrollit. Pothuajse qesharake ajo që droga të reja çudi Hulumtim dhe Zhvillim departamentet janë shpikur për një publik që nuk dyshon e saj Ata kanë marrë medikamente të reja nga kontrolli i vdekjeprurëse zbokth për kërpudhat vdekjeprurëse këmbë. LOL këto korporata shpenzojnë më shumë kohë në reklama e tyre listë efekte anësore se sa vdekjeprurës shpjeguar përfitimet e produktit.

Bottom line eshte këto Lords of Greed jeni drejtimin e një scam në publikun amerikan.

This makes no sense to me. Who forces the Amerikan public to buy dandruff shampoo or foot fungus remover when there is no dandruff or feet fungus to take care off? Blame it in ignorance, vanity or greed, but it is not the Pharmaceutical Companies which would pull off the shelves anything that is NOT SOLD. Thus, I would rather start with the promoters of the vanity and that will be no further than the TV, which sells exactly what you are complaining- anticulture, profanity and vulgarism. Unless you are saying that the pharmaceutical companies own the TV stations, too. How about some butt bleach?

Kjo nuk ka kuptim per mendimin tim. Askush nuk e detyron publikun amerikan qe te bleje shampo kunder zbokthit ose krem kunder mykut te kembeve, ne rast se nuk kane as zbokth dhe as myk per te luftuar. Mund te fajesosh injorancen, zbraztesine, ose makuterine, por kompanite farmaceutike do te hiqnin nga qarkullimi cdo produkt qe nuk u shitet. Ne vend tend do te filloja nga promovuesit e vanitetit, qe nuk shkojne me larg se sa stacionet e TV, qe shesin pikerisht ate per te cilen po ankohesh- antikulture, profanitet dhe vulgarizem. Pervec ne se po deklaron qe kompanite farmaceutike zoterojne stacionet e TV po ashtu.

[Ziti]

america is still a big dream for all the people of the world.
easy to live and get a job, freedom, money...

[javan]

america is still a big dream for all the people of the world.
easy to live and get a job, freedom, money...

O burra ta prishim e ta bejme Arabi.