- More than five million homeowners are behind on their mortgages.
- There are over six million Americans who have been unemployed for at least six months, a record 40% of the ranks of the jobless.
- The private capital stock is growing at its slowest rate in nearly two decades.
- Roughly 30% of manufacturing capacity is sitting idle.
- Nearly 19 million residential housing units, or about 15% of the stock, is vacant.
- One in six Americans is either unemployed or underemployed.
- Commercial real estate values are down 30% over the past year.
- The average American worker has seen his/her level of wealth plunge $100,000 over the last two years, even with the recovery in equity markets this past year.
- Bank credit is contracting at an unprecedented 15% annual rate so far this year as lenders sit on a record $1.3 trillion of cash.
- Unit labor costs are down an unprecedented 4.7% over the past year, and what has replenished household coffers has been the federal government, as transfer payments from Uncle Sam now make up a record 18% of personal income (and the Senate just passed yet another jobless benefit extension bill!)."
March 13, 2010
Are we in the clear yet?
If these facts from David Rosenberg with Gluskin Sheff & Associates have anything to say about it, I don't think so:
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