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Wednesday, 01/03/2018 3:50:33 PM

Wednesday, January 03, 2018 3:50:33 PM

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44 Numbers From 2017 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

#2 The price of Bitcoin rose more than 1,300% during 2017.

#3 According to the Washington Post, one out of every ten young adults in the United States has been homeless at some point over the past year.

#4 The United States has lost more than 70,000 manufacturing facilities since China joined the WTO in 2001.

6 The all-time record for the number of retail store closings in the U.S. was absolutely shattered in 2017. According to the latest figures, a total of 6,985 store locations were shut down last year, and we are expected to break the record again in 2018.

#7 Incredibly, the number of retail store closings in 2017 was up 229 percent compared with 2016. Now we are 20 trillion dollars in debt with no end in sight.

#10 According to the most recent numbers that we have, 41 million Americans are currently living in poverty.

#13 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than 5,000 points in 2017, and that absolutely shattered the previous record of 3,472 points in 2013.

#18 Back in 1960, an average of $146 was spent on healthcare per person for the entire year, but today that number has skyrocketed to $9,990.

#19 Thanks to Obamacare, an appendectomy is ten times more expensive in the United States than it is in Mexico.

#20 Thanks to Obamacare, a family of four in Virginia is now facing the prospect of paying $3,000 a month for health insurance.

#21 It is being projected that the average rate increase for Obamacare plans will be 37 percent in 2018. the U.S. economy only grew at an average rate of just 1.33 percent over the 10 years prior to 2017.

78 percent of all full-time workers in the United States live paycheck to paycheck at least part of the time.

#26 According to the Federal Reserve, the average U.S. household is now $137,063 in debt, and that figure is more than double the median household income.

#27 A staggering 59.8 percent of younger Millennials (18 to 25) are now living with relatives, and overall an all-time record 38.4 percent of all Millennials are currently living with family.

Larry Kotlikoff says that the federal government is facing a fiscal gap of 210 trillion dollars over the next 75 years At this point, 20 percent of all U.S. households have “either zero or negative wealth”.

Source: theeconomiccollapseblog.com

http://x22report.com/this-is-it-the-events-have-started-the-push-is-on-to-take-back-control-episode-1461/

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