{"id":20513,"date":"2012-09-06T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=20513"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:35:17","slug":"dhunplugged-161-are-we-better-off-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/dhunplugged-161-are-we-better-off-now\/","title":{"rendered":"DHUnplugged #161: Are We Better Off Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Convention is is full swing  lots of hope, promise and blame. Are we better off that we were a few years ago, Pre-Obama? We hit on the important data points. Plus some stock ideas and lots more<\/p>\n<p>Some data points to <!--more-->consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F\/T Employed then: 117 million, employed now 114 million<\/li>\n<li>U6 Unemployment rate then: 14% &#8211; now 15%<\/li>\n<li>Real wages up 0%<\/li>\n<li>National Debt then: 10.6 trillion, now 16 trillion<\/li>\n<li>Average price of gas then: $1.88, now $4.00<\/li>\n<li>SPX then 950, now 1,400<\/li>\n<li>Total GDP then 12,846 \u00a0 now 13,546 (billion)<\/li>\n<li>Total Gvt Spending then 2,908 now 3,052 (billion)<\/li>\n<li>FED balance sheet 2 trillion plus now from under 200 billion<\/li>\n<li>Income for Black households fell 11.5% during Obama&#8217;s Presidency vs 5.2% for white households<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/2012\/09\/05\/dhunplugged-161-are-we-better-off-now\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9694 aligncenter\" title=\"dhunplugged\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhunplugged.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\/2012\/09\/05\/dhunplugged-161-are-we-better-off-now\/\"><strong> \u00a0LISTEN NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Convention is is full swing lots of hope, promise and blame. Are we better off that we were a few years ago, Pre-Obama? We hit on the important data points. Plus some stock ideas and lots more Some data points to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dh-unplugged-media","tag-dh-unplugged","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}