Nobody Gets Email: The Question is—Can We Still Hope?
The change is in the chart below and the hope is that it does not get any worse.
Forget about Hope.
It is going to get much worse.
Here’s our change!
| January 2009 | TODAY |
% chg |
Source |
|
| Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. | $1.83 | $3.82 |
108% |
1 |
| Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) | $43..48 | $99..02 |
127.7% |
2 |
| Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) | $38..74 | $91..38 |
135.9% |
2 |
| Gold: London (per troy oz.) | $853.25 | $1,369.50 |
60.5% |
2 |
| Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL | $3.56 | $6.33 |
78.1% |
2 |
| Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL | $9.66 | $13..75 |
42.3% |
2 |
| Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob | $13..37 | $35..39 |
164.7% |
2 |
| Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall | 7.6% | 9.4% |
23.7% |
3 |
| Unemployment rate, blacks | 12.6% | 15.8% |
25.4% |
3 |
| Number of unemployed | 11,616,000 | 14,485,000 |
24.7% |
3 |
| Number of fed. Employees | 2,779,000 | 2,840,000 |
2.2% |
3 |
| Real median household income | $50,112 | $49,777 |
-0.7% |
4 |
| Number of food stamp recipients | 31,983,716 | 43,200,878 |
35.1% |
5 |
| Number of unemployment benefit recipients | 7,526,598 | 9,193,838 |
22.2% |
6 |
| Number of long-term unemployed | 2,600,000 | 6,400,000 |
146.2% |
3 |
| Poverty rate, individuals | 13.2% | 14.3% |
8.3% |
4 |
| People in poverty in U.S. | 39,800,000 | 43,600,000 |
9.5% |
4 |
| U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings | 5 | 9 |
n/a |
10 |
| Present Situation Index | 29.9 | 23.5 |
-21.4% |
11 |
| Failed banks | 140 | 164 |
17.1% |
12 |
| U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate | 89.76 | 82.03 |
-8.6% |
2 |
| U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions | 1,575.1 | 1,865.7 |
18.4% |
13 |
| U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions | 8,310.9 | 8,852.3 |
6.5% |
13 |
| National debt, in trillions | $10..627 | $14..052 |
32.2% |
14 |
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation’s history. Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane, 27 times faster, it would be doing 1755 MPH!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
| January 2009 | TODAY |
% chg |
Source |
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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