{"id":20526,"date":"2012-09-09T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=20526"},"modified":"2012-09-09T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:01:18","slug":"sunday-fun-are-we-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/sunday-fun-are-we-better-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Are We Better Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8221;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhunplugged.com\"> DHUnplugged<\/a>, we tried to take an objective look at the question that everyone is asking. It seems that it got a great deal of attention and there is a healthy debate raging on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the stat we looked at,each was pulled directly <!--more-->from the sources:<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t shoot the messenger &#8211; you decide for yourself)<\/p>\n<p>Some data points to consider &#8211; 4 years ago vs. today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full Time Employed then: 117 million, employed now 114 million<\/li>\n<li>U6 Unemployment rate then: 14%  now 15% (includes part time workers who want to work full time but can&#8217;t find a FT job)<\/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 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\u2018s Presidency vs 5.2% for white households<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8221;s DHUnplugged, we tried to take an objective look at the question that everyone is asking. It seems that it got a great deal of attention and there is a healthy debate raging on Facebook. Here are the stat we looked at,each was pulled directly<\/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":[12],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-20526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-sunday-fun","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\/20526","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=20526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}