Crazy Economic Numbers From 2013

83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe | Pakalert Press

#1  102 million working age Americans do not have a job.  That number has risen by about 27 million since the year 2000.

#2  49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program each month.

#3 the NSA intercepts and permanently stores close to 2 billion emails and phone calls in addition to a whole host of other data.

#4  total public and private debt levels around the globe are now 30 percent higher than they were back during the financial crisis of 2008.

#5 private domestic debt in China has grown from 9 trillion dollars in 2008 to 23 trillion dollars today.

#6 In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in the United States.  Today, there are only 6,891 left.

#7 The six largest banks in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.

#8 The six largest banks now account for 67 percent of those assets and all of the other banks account for only 33 percent of those assets.

#9 JPMorgan Chase is roughly the size of the entire British economy.

#10 The five largest banks now account for 42 percent of all loans in the United States.