| January 2009 |
TODAY |
% chg |
Source |
|
|
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
|
$1.83 |
$3.44 |
84% |
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 ofunemployment 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 versusJapanese 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 7,555 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
(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
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Because of the horrendous financial situation in the US and around the world, many tournaments with long tradition have to be either postponed or canceled. This is why chess organizers have to work harder and more creatively to find new sponsors.
Thank you, President Obama, for destroying the United States with your Socialist policies. Thank you, VP Biden, for your liberal agenda. Both of you make President Carter look like a genius.
Just blame Bush. It works.
I blame the bankers. The politicians are sock puppets of the money men. Obama is a pawn in this dangerous game of chess. Many will discover it is not chess that is being played but Russian Roulette!
Notice that Mount Debt has Obama’s head and ears at the top? It needs to have Bernanke or Soros’ heads instead.
Peak oil!
Ressource scarcity
Energy/climate constraints
Basically End of Growth…
Wake Up people!
If a car goes 27 times faster than 65MPH, wouldn’t it be going 1755MPH, not 7555MPH???????????????
Peak oil is a myth. I can see you failed biology anon. Biologists have proven that oil is being constantly made by microbes in the soil. This theory was proven through the creation of bio-diesel. You know he stuff they are making out of corn and the reason why your corn flakes doubled in price recently? The corporate fat cats at Monsanto are hoping we ignore the fact they are using microbes to make oil. The same microbes currently making fresh oil everyday. This proves that the common human being is phenomenally stupid.
Stupid anon is stupid.
The bankers got theirs. It doesn’t really matter which party is in power. They are both beholden to Goldman Sachs.
Taxpayers first bailed out Goldman. Then, through AIG, funneled more billions to counter parties that included Goldman and a German bank.
Now the profits are back, but they are not being shared. Profits are private, losses are socialized. It’s heads I win, tails you lose.
No one still knows the size of the derivatives market. Some say Credit Default Swaps alone are over $300 trillion. Think about that… the entire US GDP is $13 trillion. And the bankers are gambling $300 trillion.
And nothing much happened to correct that. Glass-Steagle is gone, and has not been back. Getting derivatives legalized, btw, was Senator Phil Graham’s pet project. Search google for Brooksley Born. She tried to fix that, but the then treasury sec (Rubin), Greenspan, and Phil Graham put a kabosh on her plans.
All this debt stuff is just a passing phase… the real underlying problems are unfortunately much harder to tackle. The fox is guarding the hen house.
Why can’t we keep politics out of chess blogs?
“Why can’t we keep politics out of chess blogs?”
It is very relevant anon, if we can’t feed ourselves and our kids we cannot play chess. It is time to have another Bolshevik revolution because the American Revolution can’t happen with fat stupid Americans unable to see the danger they put the world in because of allowing the Zionist bankers ruin the world money system. We need Russian common sense! We need Bobby Fischer back! Bobby knew about the likes of Soros and Kissinger, both Zionist traitors to humanity.
“If Athens cries but Sparta doesn’t laugh.”
If the U.S. is crying, the EU does not laugh.
Speculation on the stock exchange, business broker, conflict of interest, the banks’ power…
Italy is the joke of the world.
A kiss.
Stef