Kevin Depew’s statistics for 2009
By Daniel at 29 December, 2009, 5:11 pm
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- Unemployment Rate: 10%
- Number of Metropolitan Areas where unemployment is higher than a year ago: 372
- Number of Metropolitan Areas tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 372
- Total consumer bankruptcy filings through November 2009: 1,300,000
- Total consumer bankruptcy filings in 2009: 1,095,344
- Homes currently in foreclosure: more than 1,000,000
- Home Home Equity Loans and lines of credit extended through third quarter, 2009: $40 billion
- Home Home Equity Loans and lines of credit extended in 2006: $430 billion
- Profits earned by Wall Street firms collectively through third quarter 2009: $49.7 billion
- Amount lost by Wall Street firms collectively in 2008: $42.6 billion
- Total corporate profits, third quarter 2009: $132.4 billion
- Financial services profits, third quarter 2009: $82.8 billion
- Goldman Sachs earnings, 2008: $2.8 billion
- Goldman Sachs taxes paid, 2008: $14 million
- Wall Street Bonuses 2009(1): $149 billion
- Wall Street Bonuses 2008: $140 billion
- Total Lobbying spending 2009: $3.33 billion*
- Lobbying spending by finance industry to influence regulatory reform: more than $300 million
- Finance industry lobbyists per member of Congress: 5
- Federal government share of GDP 2009: 26%
- Federal government share of GDP 2000: 18.4%
- Size of Federal Reserve balance sheet: $2.2 trillion
*Expected. The record, set in 2008, was $3.30 billion.
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Size of Federal Reserve balance sheet: $2.2 trillion
Wow! It’s very much. Too much.