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Average US Household Wealth Plunges to Only $656,039!! Details: Jan. 11 Investment & Finance Thread
Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | Jan. 11, 2015 | Freeper Investors

Posted on 01/11/2015 10:06:38 AM PST by expat_panama

       
  Average U.S.   
  Household Wealth  
       
  Real Estate $186,702  
  Durables $44,374  
  Deposits $81,497  
  Stocks/Business $422,126  
  Bonds $27,139  
  Misc. $7,598  
   

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  Total Assets $769,435  
       
  Debts -$113,397  
    _____________  
  Net Worth $656,039  
       

Something that snuck by me (and most people) last month was the Fed's quarterly Flow of Funds Report --their bigass number-dump that says where all America's money has gone.  My favorite part is the one on household balances (Table B.100 page 117) and the big secret that the press has been hiding is the fact that that total private wealth actually dropped in the third quarter 2014! Ah yes, our unemployment rate's just 5.6% and a good time's being had by all-- yeah right.  

Then we hear "aw jeeze guys, let's not forget America's wealth is steady --off less than 2/10ths of % of the previous quarter's all time high.   So there.

 

Time to stop and think about inflation and population growth --and we slam into the fact that real average household wealth is still less than it was before all the hope'n'change.  What we got is that even after all the work Americans have been doing for the past seven years we've gotten nowhere --in fact we're worse off:  the average American household has fallen to a mere ⅔ of a $million.

Hmmm.  

A household w/ a over $113 grand in mortgages/debts on assets (mostly stocks'n'real-estate) totaling $769K.   Off hand I don't remember my bank saying I got a balance of $81,497. 

 

OK, y'all are probably way ahead of me saying that these are averages --all skewed by the fact that the vast majority of us are slogging away and that money-grubbing one percent has the overall numbers distorted way off from how the vast majority lives (more on average/mean incomes here). 

Maybe.

 

 mandatory Occupy Wall Street income and wealth inequality graphics (click to enlarge)

 

 

 

The Fed stats picked up from the Census Bur. tell us that median real household income has fallen, but the Bureau of Economic Analysis that average real incomes are twice the median and are increasing.  I mean, I can hate the over-achievers as much as the next guy but at some point we need to notice that somehow we left Numberland and we now find we've wandered over into the Fantasy Kingdom of the Political Hacks.

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In the mean time I'm struggling to find a way to make do w/ only $656,039 to my name.  Yeah, I know I don't have $80-some K in the bank but I got this really neat Sox baseball cap that I know I could get a half mil. on Ebay...

 

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; householdwealth; networth; stockmarket; wallstreet
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To: abb
a buying opportunity.

There really is a lot to be said for that idea --the 'pro' arguments include the fact that it's up 5% over yesterday's low that still followed a long term uptrend.  So it wouldn't be 'catching a falling knife' 'cause it's not falling now.

121 posted on 01/16/2015 9:39:56 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
BHI: US rig counts -74 this week


122 posted on 01/16/2015 10:06:57 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Please tell me why I’m not seeing a 50% cut in operations over the next few months...


123 posted on 01/16/2015 1:28:41 PM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama; Wyatt's Torch

The Swiss caused some turmoil

Swiss franc shock shuts some FX brokers; regulators move in
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/us-swiss-snb-brokers-idUSKBN0KP1EH20150116


124 posted on 01/16/2015 1:40:37 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
its clients suffered $225 million of losses.

Hmm.  You know after a while losses like that can really add up to real money...

125 posted on 01/16/2015 3:01:39 PM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

That would pretty much break me... ;^)


126 posted on 01/16/2015 3:07:19 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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