50 statistical facts about the US economy

Most Americans know that the US economy is not in good shape, but that many Americans do not know is just how really desperate financial situation in the United States at the moment. The truth is that we are now experiencing is not simply "decline" or "decrease in activity." Now we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine, which saw the world. Our greed and debt literally eaten alive by our economy. The total debt of the government, corporations and individuals has reached 360% of GDP, which is much higher than what was achieved during the Great Depression. We are almost completely dismantled our once colossal manufacturing base, we have moved abroad for millions and millions of jobs for the middle class, we have for decades lived entirely beyond their means, thereby creating the biggest debt bubble in the world. Great day of the payment on account is fast approaching, and the vast majority of Americans do not pay no attention to it.

But you can not endlessly challenge the fundamental financial laws. What goes up, must necessarily fall. Occupying the borrower is servant. Cutting corners will sooner or later impact.

Few of us fully are aware of the seriousness of the situation we face.

Here are 50 demonstration statistical facts about the US economy, which is almost impossible to believe ...

50) In 2010, the US government announced that the amount of debt that exceeds the debt of all other countries combined.
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49) The Government in 2010 will create a budget deficit of about 1.6 trillion dollars.

48) If you spend a dollar per second, it is to spend $ 1 trillion, you will need 31,000 years.

47) If from the time of Christ's birth, you spent one million dollars every single day, to date, you have not been able to spend a trillion *.

46) General government debt is now 90% of US GDP.

45) Total debt on loans in the United States, including government, corporate and personal debt is 360% of GDP.

44) Taxes on income of US corporations fell by 55% (138 billion) for the year ended September 30, 2009.

43) In California, there are now 8 counties, where unemployment is above 20%.

42) In the area around Sacramento, California, one closed business for six while working.

41) In February, for each vacancy claimed 5, 5 Americans.

40) In the study «Pew Research Center» says that about 37% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 years are unemployed or partially employed.

39) More than 40% of employed in the United States are now working in low-paid jobs.

38) According to one new survey, 24% of workers said that last year postponed their planned retirement.

37) Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which is 32% more than the year before. That's not all, in March 2010, recognized the bankruptcy of more Americans than any other month since October 2005, when the law on personal bankruptcy has been significantly toughened.

36) Applications for mortgages fell by 40% compared with the previous month to the lowest level since April 1997.

35) «RealtyTrac» declared that the registration of mortgage foreclosures in the US in the second half of 2009 set a record of all time.

34) As they say, the application for foreclosure in March 2010 reached 367 056, an increase of approximately 19 percent compared to February, about 9% in comparison with March 2009 and reached the highest monthly figure for all the time studies in January 2005 .

33) In Pinellas and Pasco counties, as well as St. Petersburg, Florida and the suburbs to the north are now 34,000 cases of open mortgage foreclosures. Ten years ago there were about 4000.

32) On the central avenue of California, one of the sixteen houses are in various stages of foreclosure of the mortgage losses.

32) The Mortgage Bankers Association recently announced that more than 10% of all American homeowners mortgage have missed at least one payment for the period from January to March. This record figure which is higher than 9, 1 percent from a year earlier.

30) Banks again took over about 258,000 homes in the United States in the first quarter of 2010, representing 35% growth compared to the first quarter of 2009.

29) For the first time in the history of most of the banks owned by private housing market than private owners.

28) More than 24% of all mortgage houses at the end of 2009 had a negative difference between the cost of providing and credit debt.

28) The value of commercial properties fell by about 40% since 2007, and now 18 percent of the office space in the US remain unfilled.

26) Defaults on mortgage payment of housing under construction grew by a record 4.6% in the first quarter of 2010. This is almost twice more than a year earlier.

25) In 2009 US banks recorded a record contraction in private loans since 1942.

24) New York State delayed paying bills for a total of 2, 5 billion dollars in an attempt to stay in the short-term solvency, but officials warn that the cash deficit in the state will soon become even more.

23) To make up for the projected budget deficit in 2010 to 280 million, Detroit issued in March to 250 million in 20-year debt. The bond issue has become a necessary measure, together with a warning from Detroit officials that if the financial situation did not improve, they will be forced to declare bankruptcy.

22) The National League of Cities says that municipal board of up to 2012 will face a budget deficit of 56 to 83 billion dollars.

21) Half a dozen cash-strapped states have announced that delayed tax refunds.

20) Two university professors recently calculated that a general right to a pension, which is not provided with means, is 3, $ 2 trillion.

19) says EconomicPolicyJournal.com, 32 states have already exhausted the funds to pay unemployment benefits, and thus, the federal government supports these states financially so that they can pay benefits.

18) The recession has destroyed 8 million jobs in the private sector.

17) Wages in the private sector decreased in the first quarter of 2010 to the lowest level in the history of the United States.

16) providing the US government benefits (including social security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs) rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

15) 39, 68 million Americans now receive food stamps, which is an absolute record. But it's much worse. US Department of Agriculture predicts that in 2011, will receive food stamps for 43 million Americans.

14) Phoenix, Arizona reveals a striking annual rate avtovorovstva in 57,000 vehicles, and has become the new "Avtovorovskoy capital of the world».

13) US law enforcement authorities claim that the country trades in more than one million members of criminal gangs. This million bandits responsible for 80% of crimes in the United States.

12) The US health care system has faced a shortage of approximately 150,000 doctors in the next decade, but thanks to the health care reform adopted by Congress, this figure could rise another few hundred thousand.

11) In accordance with the analysis of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the Congress, the law on health care reform will bring 409 2 billion of additional taxes on the population by 2019.

10) Industrial Dow had just experienced its worst May since 1940.

9) In 1950, the ratio of the average salary manager salary of the average worker was about 30 to 1. Since the 2000s, this difference increased up to 300-500 1.

Approximately 40% of all retail spending currently taking place through 20% of American households that have the highest incomes.

7) As the economists Thomas Piketty say and Emmanuel Saets, two-thirds of the increase in income between 2002 and 2007 went to one percent of richest Americans.

6) Forty percent receiving any profit, together own less than one percent of the national wealth.

5) If every time you make only the minimum payments, the account in 6000 dollars (credit card) in the end will cost you 30,000 (depending on the interest rate).

4) According to new reports, based on data from the US Census Bureau, only 26% of adolescents aged between 16 and 19 years were employed at the end of 2009, which is a record low since that time, in 1948 began keeping statistics.

3) In accordance with the National Foundation research credit counseling, only 58% of "Generation Y» to pay monthly bills on time. *

* Generation Y - born after Generation X, in the years 1981-1994. (approx. perevodika.ru)

2) During the first quarter of 2010 the total number of loans that are late, at least three months with the payment, rising 16 th consecutive quarter.

1) In accordance with the model mikrosimulyatsionnnoy tax research, to cope with the budget deficit in 2010, the US Congress would have to increase all taxes by 2.4 times. Thus, 10% tax will be 24 percent, 15% - 36 percent, and 35% - will be in the 85 percent tax.

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50) In 2010, the US government announced that the amount of debt that exceeds the debt of all other countries combined.

49) The Government in 2010 will create a budget deficit of about 1.6 trillion dollars.

48) If you spend a dollar per second, it is to spend $ 1 trillion, you will need 31,000 years.

47) If from the time of Christ's birth, you spent one million dollars every single day, to date, you have not been able to spend a trillion *.

46) General government debt is now 90% of US GDP.

45) Total debt on loans in the United States, including government, corporate and personal debt is 360% of GDP.

44) Taxes on income of US corporations fell by 55% (138 billion) for the year ended September 30, 2009.

43) In California, there are now 8 counties, where unemployment is above 20%.

42) In the area around Sacramento, California, one closed business for six while working.

41) In February, for each vacancy claimed 5, 5 Americans.

40) In the study «Pew Research Center» says that about 37% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 years are unemployed or partially employed.

39) More than 40% of employed in the United States are now working in low-paid jobs.

38) According to one new survey, 24% of workers said that last year postponed their planned retirement.

37) Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which is 32% more than the year before. That's not all, in March 2010, recognized the bankruptcy of more Americans than any other month since October 2005, when the law on personal bankruptcy has been significantly toughened.

36) Applications for mortgages fell by 40% compared with the previous month to the lowest level since April 1997.

35) «RealtyTrac» declared that the registration of mortgage foreclosures in the US in the second half of 2009 set a record of all time.

34) As they say, the application for foreclosure in March 2010 reached 367 056, an increase of approximately 19 percent compared to February, about 9% in comparison with March 2009 and reached the highest monthly figure for all the time studies in January 2005 .

33) In Pinellas and Pasco counties, as well as St. Petersburg, Florida and the suburbs to the north are now 34,000 cases of open mortgage foreclosures. Ten years ago there were about 4000.

32) On the central avenue of California, one of the sixteen houses are in various stages of foreclosure of the mortgage losses.

32) The Mortgage Bankers Association recently announced that more than 10% of all American homeowners mortgage have missed at least one payment for the period from January to March. This record figure which is higher than 9, 1 percent from a year earlier.

30) Banks again took over about 258,000 homes in the United States in the first quarter of 2010, representing 35% growth compared to the first quarter of 2009.

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