{"id":4339,"date":"2012-05-25T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2012-05-25T04:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:43:39","slug":"fascinating-facts-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/fascinating-facts-about-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Facts About The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512_0715_Fascinating1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morgan Housel produced a list of 50 amazing numbers about the economy. Some of them include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The unemployed lose the ability to read over time.<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted for inflation, the $6 billion predicted to be spent in the 2012 elections will be 60% more than the amount spent in the 2000 elections.<\/li>\n<li>China&#8217;s growth is the equivalent of a Greece every three months.<\/li>\n<li>For every dollar that newspapers make through digital advertising, they lose $7 in print advertising.<\/li>\n<li>The end of the housing bubble annihilated wealth equivalent to half of inflation adjusted America of just 60 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Those older than 60 in America owe $36 billion in student loans.<\/li>\n<li>Americans spend 1.8% of their income on alcohol and tobacco. In the UK it&#8217;s almost three times that.<\/li>\n<li>5% of Americans account for 50% of health care costs.<\/li>\n<li>Five companies (Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Pfizer) hold almost 25% of all corporate cash.<\/li>\n<li>88% of non-farm jobs created since 2009 have gone to men. 41% of men say that the economy has improved while only 26% of women do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the rest of what is a fascinating list, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2012\/04\/05\/50-amazing-numbers-about-todays-economy-.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2012\/04\/05\/50-amazing-numbers-about-todays-economy-.aspx\">The Motley Fool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/brainiac\/2012\/04\/the_economy_wei.html\">Boston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Housel produced a list of 50 amazing numbers about the economy. Some of them include: The unemployed lose the ability to read over time. Adjusted for inflation, the $6 billion predicted to be spent in the 2012 elections will be 60% more than the amount spent in the 2000 elections. China&#8217;s growth is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052512_0715_Fascinating1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}