Mad As Hell About Bankers And Wall Street Pay…….
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
How Does Your Wealth Stand Up To The Averages………
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
Total houehold wealth is up 3.9% April through June 2009, but  is still down by 19% from the high reached back in the third quarter of 2007. To put things into another perspective, just do tthe math on the next chart from 2007.  To do the math….hint, we are subtracting  the 19% loss that we’ve had since the third quarter 2007  from […]
FDIC Insurance Funds Are Running Out………….
thestatedtruth.com | September 17, 2009
The Bloomberg Professional Confidence Index Shows Global Economy Is Trending To The Upside……
thestatedtruth.com | September 16, 2009
The Bloomberg Professional Confidence Index Global Economy is comprised of responses about the outlook for the global economy, from users globally. A value above 50 indicates a positive sentiment about the global economy from all Bloomberg respondents
Tell Tale Signs Of Things Slowly Getting Better…………
thestatedtruth.com | September 16, 2009
Poverty Top 10 Cities In The United States……….
thestatedtruth.com | September 13, 2009
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level 1. Detroit , MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo , NY 29.9% 3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland , OH 27.0% 5. Miami , FL 26.9% 5. St. Louis , MO 26.8% 7. El Paso , TX 26.4% 8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2% 9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1% […]
Hmm……We’ve Seen This Chart Before, Haven’t We……….
thestatedtruth.com | September 13, 2009
Hmm…….A Family Of 4 Living On Less Then $22,025 Per Year……Is The U.S. Government Serious
thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2009
“What exactly is ‘poverty’ to the US government? The equivalent of a family of four living on an annual budget of $22,025 or less.
A Picture ( IN This Case 2) Is Worth A Thousand Words
thestatedtruth.com | September 9, 2009
The Chart Below Shows Just How Fast Income Taxes Are Falling…….Are The Economists Paying Attention
thestatedtruth.com | September 5, 2009
States, counties, and cities are having to make deep cuts, in both jobs and programs. Today’s Wall Street Journal talks about the cuts in state after state. States cannot print money like the US can, so at some point they have to either raise taxes or cut spending to balance their budgets. Raising taxes just […]
Hmm……Rising Wages-Federal Government Workers Lead The Way
thestatedtruth.com | September 5, 2009
Interesting statistic. Want to know where wages are rising? Think federal government workers. The gap between civilian and government workers was less than $13,000 nine years ago, but now is almost $30,000. Inflation has been 24%, but government wages are up 55%. According to a recent release from Rasmussen Reports, a government job remains “the […]
Sometimes A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words…………
thestatedtruth.com | September 1, 2009
 Sheila Bair was very candid about commercial defaults being more of a driver of lots of bank failures this Fall. This is precisely the type of issue we’ve been concerned of. The references some are making about the ‘stress tests’ being feather tests of banks, is something we’ve argued all along; based on ridiculous […]
Banks Still Hurting In A Big Way……..
thestatedtruth.com | August 31, 2009
“Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal picks up on the theme of the long road of pain ahead for bank shareholders in the US,†colleague Dan Amoss tells us. “In ‘Banks on Sick List Top 400,’ the WSJ details several ugly highlights from the latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, published last Thursday. “Here are […]
We’ve Visited This Before, But It’s Very Important To Economic Growth………
thestatedtruth.com | August 29, 2009
Let’s Revisit The Debt-GDP Ratio………….
thestatedtruth.com | August 29, 2009
It’s All About Oil and The Economy……….
thestatedtruth.com | August 26, 2009
According to the US Department of Energy, liquid fuel demand in the developed nations peaked in August 2005 at 41.89 million barrels per day. Since then, it has plunged by 3.6 million barrels per day to 38.27 million barrels per day. However, you may want to note that despite these tough economic conditions, consumption has […]
Water…………….
thestatedtruth.com | August 20, 2009
White House Budget Projections……..
thestatedtruth.com | August 20, 2009
World Population……Reshuffling The Deck
thestatedtruth.com | August 19, 2009
Personal Consumption Expenditures……………
thestatedtruth.com | August 19, 2009
Mortgaged Properties Negative Equity Levels By State………..
thestatedtruth.com | August 15, 2009
U.S. Trade Deficit…………..
thestatedtruth.com | August 13, 2009
Looming Liabilities Of Governments Keep Rising….And Look Who Is Rising Fastest!
thestatedtruth.com | July 31, 2009
Interesting Tid Bits From Gene Inger……………
thestatedtruth.com | July 29, 2009
Interesting Charts…..
thestatedtruth.com | July 26, 2009
Housing Contribution To GDP………
thestatedtruth.com | July 25, 2009
At one point, housing construction was over 5% of GDP. Now it is around 2.5%. The graph shows how much a shrinking home-construction industry has reduced GDP each quarter for the last two years.
Global GDP By Region……….
thestatedtruth.com | July 25, 2009
A few side observations on the above graph. China is roughly as big as the other three of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, and India) combined. Russia and Brazil are in recessions. Also, note that it will be decades before China’s economy is as big as that of the US, even with growth of 5-6% a […]
One Problem Leads Us To Another………….
thestatedtruth.com | July 23, 2009
Through March of 2009, banks had taken only $1.1 trillion in write- downs to date. Even the most conservative estimates put total credit losses at $2.2 trillion. Tilson and Tongue make a convincing case that the losses will be far worse than that – more like $3.8 trillion. And these numbers have only grown over time. […]
Europe on the Brink……John Mauldin
thestatedtruth.com | July 18, 2009
Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter Europe on the Brink by John Mauldin July 17, 2009 Â Â In this issue: Europe on the Brink And Then There Was Leverage Too Big To Save Those Wild and Crazy Swiss A Positive Third Quarter? We have avoided Armageddon, at least for now. The cost to the US […]
A Look At Four Bad Bears…………
thestatedtruth.com | July 16, 2009
Loaded Inbound and Outbound Container Traffic
thestatedtruth.com | July 16, 2009
Large U.S. Bank Notional Derivatives Exposure….
thestatedtruth.com | July 16, 2009
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