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Home Vault Misc Contact c2003-09 Thomas Barnard
Statistics and Other Favorite Numbers
Economic:
Unemployment: 9.4% Shadow Stats: 20%
http://www.miseryindex.us/URbymonth.asp
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
Jobs Situation: -247,000 Non-Farm (July)
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
GDP: -1%, 2nd Quarter
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
Housing Starts: 581,000 (July 2009) seasonally adjusted
587,000 June 2009
2,273,000 Jan 2007 (peak)
http://www.census.gov/const/startssa.pdf
Car Sales: -32% year over year
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html
Markets:
Value Line 3-5 year Appreciation Potential: 65% (At 3/9/09 Low, 185%, At July 2007 high, 35%)
Investor's Intelligence Bulls & Bears
Bullish: 48.9% (8/18/09), at March 2009 bottom: 35%
Bearish: 23.1% (8/18/09), at March 2009 bottom: 45%
http://www.market-harmonics.com/free-charts/sentiment/investors_intelligence.htm
S&P PE Ratio: 17.6 (Aug 2009)