January 2009 up to TODAY% chg Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. (regular conventional) $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2 Natural gas, Henry Hub, $ per MMbtu $4.85 $4.48 -7.6% 2 Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2 Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2 Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13.75 42.3% 2 Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 $35.39 164.7% 2 Producer Price Index: all commodities 171.0 189.9 11.1% 3 Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7% 3 Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3 Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% 3 Number of fed. employees, ex. uniformed military (curr = 12/10 prelim) 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% 3 Real median household income (2008 vs 2009) $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4 Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10) 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5 Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10) 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% 6 Number of long-term unemployed, in millions 2.6 6.4 146.2% 3 Poverty rate, individuals (2008 vs 2009) 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4 People in poverty in U.S., in millions (2008 vs 2009) 39.8 43.6 9.5% 4 House price index (current = Q3 2010) 198.7 192.7 -3.0% 7 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index: 20 city composite (curr = 10/10) 146.4 145.3 -0.8% 8 Number of properties subject of foreclosurefilings, in millions 2.82 2.87 1.7% 9 U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 9 n/a 10 Consumer Confidence Index (curr = 12/10) 37.7 52.5 39.3% 11 Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10) 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11 Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) 140 164 17.1% 12 U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 82.03 -8.6% 2 U.S. money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 preliminary) 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4% 13 U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 preliminary) 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13 National debt, in trillions $10.627 $14.052 32.2% 14
Those numbers cant be right because Obama said there was no inflation and that things are getting better!
Hey! that was Bernarke's line from yesterday speech! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bernanke