While Bitcoin tumbled in free fall compared to the USD back in December... It's since pretty much stabilized at around 67% of it's December 15th exchange rate.
Gold has dropped a little under 8% in the same time frame.
Oil is up over 25% in the same time frame.
September Soybean Futures are down by around 21% since the President announced tariffs a little over a month ago.
The Federal Debt is currently $174,321.00 for each and every US Taxpayer.
As of June there were 95 million and 502 thousand working age Americans who were considered "Not in the Labor Force" by the US "Bureau of Labor Statistics"........ These individuals are NOT considered as part of the calculations to determine the unemployment rate in the US. They aren't working.
Calculations by Shadowstats.com show that if these individuals were made part of the unemployment number... Unemployment in the US would (As of June 2018) be 21.5%
According to Bloomberg, on average CEOs in America now make 333 times what their workers make.
Median household income while currently rising, is at about the same level as it was in 2009 (9 years ago!)
On or before August 30th The consumer price of $200,000,000,000.00 worth of goods made in China will rise by 10% because of tariffs levied by the Trump Administration.
Americans have charged a record amount on their Credit Cards, and other Revolving Credit Accounts........ We now owe $3,900,000,000,000.00 on these accounts...... That's a nice neat stack of $100 Dollar bills - 2,648 MILES HIGH!!!
As I mentioned above the Trade War between the US and China is heating up..... China now owns $1,190,000,000,000.00 of US Federal Debt.
4,100 Retail stores have already closed this year. (Don't be fooled though, "Online" retail sales only make up about 9% of the total. slumping sales in general are far outpacing what's being stolen from "brick and Mortar" stores by Amazon.) In 2017, nearly 3 times as many retail stores closed as in 2016. The closing of just one WalMart puts 281 people out of work.
As of February, General Motors was sitting on 900,681 unsold cars and light trucks (Times X? Dollars per vehicle??)
