Monday, February 5, 2018

Some Numbers

In the market recovery from 2008, people with 1.5 million dollars in earnings made money, investors with less than those earnings did not.

There is currently  a 3.5 to 5.2 trillion dollar shortfall in municipal pension allocation. Trillion.

30% of car loans in the southeast U.S. are in arrears.

The top 15% of stocks were responsible for 45% of gains in the market, averaging 9.5 % annual gains. The rest averaged 4.5% gain.

There are more EFTs than stocks on the NYSE.

54% of people report they will not take a vacation this year for fear of work buildup.

Tulip Report: At the beginning of the year, the Bitcom market was worth 37 Billion Dollars.

Pensions in the private sector are less than 3% underfunded. In the public sector they are 53% underfunded.

Stock trading is 90% algorithm. 61% is high frequency traders.

The most respected company in the U.S. is Lego. Next is Apple.

31% of income in the U.S. goes to taxes. In France it is 60%

In the U.S. there are an average of 1600 er visits a day related to opiate overdose.

There are 600,000 prescriptions/day  written for opiates.

It is said that opiate naïve patients have a 6% addiction rate when started on opiates.

(Adjusting the Goalpost Department) The airlines have times set to determine efficiencies that are used to measure delay. In 1972, a flight from LaGuardia to Huston was scheduled to be 2:31 hours. In 2016 the same trip was marked at 4:10.

The percentage of American households earning annual incomes in each of the lower and middle ranges is today lower than in the mid-1970s, while the percentage earning incomes in each of the upper-income ranges ($100,000 and above) is higher.


Imports are 1/7th of U.S. GDP.

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