Suicides...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aquBCzT7ZMLs&pos=9

Number of people commiting suicides in US - 19.2 per 100,000

in us army - 20.2 per 100,000

Facebook stats...

Long time no see... got busy in real life. Back to normal stuff.

Some facebook facts...

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Most watched videos....

Not professionally produced but consumer produced - 43%

http://advancingthestory.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/more-intel-on-web-video/

How many people does it take to do US census

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAOpY6z2k1c0

The U.S. Census Bureau has said it will hire more than 1.4 million people over the next year to conduct the population count that happens once every 10 years.

State revenues/expenditure...

Lots of good numbers related to state revenues/expenditure

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2009-06-18-State_Revenue_Flash.pdf

How many ppl get killed in hospitals due to human errors...

In 1999 it was in the range - 44000 to 98000

http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/4/117/ToErr-8pager.pdf

Why health care cost keeps rising....

PWC gives some numbers - http://www.ahip.org/redirect/TheFactorsFuelingRisingHealthcareCosts2006.pdf

http://www.wellpoint.com/pdf/Premium%20Cost%20Drivers.pdf

Stats about US small businesses

From http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqIndexAll.cfm?areaid=24

• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
• Employ about half of all private sector employees.
• Pay nearly 45 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
• Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the last decade.
• Create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
• Hire 40 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer
workers).
• Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
• Made up 97.3 percent of all identified exporters and produced 28.9 percent of the known
export value in FY 2006.
• Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms; these patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.

Number of credit cards in US

From http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1139585720090611

365 Million as compared to 440 Million last year.

Chocolate consumption india....

Less than half of the 1.1B people in india have ever tasted chocolate.

Cadbury holds ~70% chocolate market, nestle 25%

Size of indian chocolate market $465M, Britian $4.89B.

Cadbury imports 50% of its cocoa needs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124440401582092071.html

tax efilings in india..

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/06/04/stories/2009060451740100.htm

Health care statistics...

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/  has lots of stats

To get you started, read the executive summary for 08 - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus08.pdf#executivesummary

- Overall, private health insurance paid 36% of total personal health care expenditures in 2006, the federal government 35%, state and local governments 10%, and out-of-pocket payments 15%

- An estimated 44 million people or 17% of Americans under 65 years of age did not have health insurance coverage at the time they were interviewed in 2006

- In 2005, the United States devoted 15% of its GDP to health compared with 12% in Switzerland, the country with the next highest share

- Expenditures for hospital care accounted for 31% of all national health expenditures in 2006. Physician and clinical services accounted for 21% of the total in 2006, prescription drugs for 10%, and nursing home care for 6%

Vehicle sales by company/brands...

http://www.morgancom.com/salesanalysis.htm

Tracking foreclosure...

Number of houses foreclosed - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=HOMFCLOS:IND

Also - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=FORLSUBP:IND

% houses foreclosed - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BBMDFCL:IND

Retail sales...

From http://www.census.gov/marts/www/marts_current.html

- Gasoline stations sales down by -34% y-o-y. Of course, they sell much more than gasoline but most of it is gasoline.

- Motor sales down -23.5% y-o-y

- Health/personal care increased by 2.2% y-o-y

Over the past couple months, retail sales consistently fell below ~10% y-o-y.

How much do ppl eat out...

For every dollar spent on food - 48 cents is spent in restaurants.

Social security numbers....

Numbers for US

Working population ~150M

Tax returns filed last year ~120M(or 130M... a lot of ppl file taxes jointly)

Retirees receiving social security ~50M

I didn't expect Retirees/working population ratio to be 1/3.

Mortgage backed securities price indexes ....

CMBS - http://www.mlindex.ml.com/gispublic/bin/QuickChart.asp?sCurr=0|

Movies US and International

From MPAA - http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2008_theat_stats.pdf

Illegal immigrants in US...

Interesting numbers - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2008.pdf

>35% of illegal immigrant population arrived in under a decade.

Business Cycles...

http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html

Tracking home sales...

Pending home sales - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=USPHTMOM:IND

Existing home sales - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=ETSLTOTL:IND

New home sales - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=NHSLTOT:IND

% homes in foreclosures - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BBMDFCL:IND

Defense spendings...

http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/fy09_dod_request_global/

Total defense spending - 1.47T

US accounts for 48% of world defense spending. It spends around 711B.

India 11th at 22B

Immigration research...

Immigration numbers - http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/yearbook.shtm

Good papers at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5761.html

Ethnic composition of US inventors - http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-006.pdf

Chinese - 8%

Europeans - 6.5%

Indians - 5%

How much is 9.7 trillion....

From bloomberg - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok

The $9.7 trillion in pledges would be enough to send a $1,430 check to every man, woman and child alive in the world. It’s 13 times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office data, and is almost enough to pay off every home mortgage loan in the U.S., calculated at $10.5 trillion by the Federal Reserve.

Jan economic indicators....

Very good post from CR

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/01/january-economic-summary-in-graphs.html

US Stimulus package...

From http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a97ZnbjkP6YA&refer=home

"In yesterday’s vote, all of the 244 “yes” votes came from Democrats. Voting “no” were 177 Republicans and 11 Democrats. "

Expecting it to be blocked in senate at least once...

NRF Retail sales projections...

Expects a 3.6% increase in Q409....

http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News&op=viewlive&sp_id=660

US household net worth...

56.5 trillion - http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/z1r-1.pdf

Good numbers on Oil

http://omrpublic.iea.org/balances.asp

Tracking consumer confidence...

Michigan consumer confidence - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CONSSENT:IND

Situation - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CONCPSIT:IND

Consumer Expectations - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CONCEXP:IND

China latest internet numbers..

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2009/01/13/with-another-rise-in-users-china-pads-its-global-internet-lead/

- 22% of the population has internet connection... 42% up from 2007.

- 90% of the internet users use broadband connection... some variant of DSL, cable modem or leased line.

Tracking China...

Trade Balance - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CNFRBAL$:IND

Exports YOY - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CNFREXPY:IND

Rental vacancy rates SJC/SFO

Data from census.gov about rental vacancy rates in san jose and san francisco. This is for Q3-08. Vacancy rates are higher than 2007 but lower than 2006. Report for Q4-08 is scheduled for 03-Feb-09... would be interesting.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/rates/files/tab2_state05_2008_hvr.xls

Lots of housing data here - http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/hvs.html

Tracking India....

Weekly Wholesale inflation - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INWHOLEY:IND

Manufacturing inflation component of wholesale inflation - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=INWHMFGY:IND

10 year bond - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=GIND10YR:IND

FII inflows - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=FIINNET$:IND

Repo rate - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INRPYLD:IND

YOY %change exports - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INMTEXUY:IND

YOY %change industrial production - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=INPIINDY:IND

Current Account Deficit - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=INBQCUR:IND

Fiscal Deficit - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=INFFFIDE:IND

Oil Imports - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=INMTIMP$:IND

Tracing credit...

Few charts I find useful to track short term/intermediate lending... mostly excludes real estate and auto..

New credit extended - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=CICRTOT:IND

Outstanding consumer credit - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CCOSTOT:IND

Outstanding non revolving credit - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CCOSNREV:IND

Tracking unemployment...

The ADP employment report today wasn't good - http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/pdf/FINAL_Report_December_08.pdf

1-in-6 private sector employees are paid via ADP. So they do have good amount of data to come up with credible numbers.

Tomorrow we'll have weekly jobless claim report and monster employment index report. Some charts I play with for tracking unemployment... 

Weekly jobless claims - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INJCJC:IND

Monthly unemployment rate - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=USURTOT:IND

Total unemployed recieving unemployment insurance - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=INJCSP:IND

Tracking oil..

DOE Report - 

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/wpsr.html

Couple of graphs from bloomberg which I play with almost every wednesday after the DOE oil report

Important ones....

Crude Inventories - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOESCRUD:IND

Crude Oil Imports - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOEICESP:IND

Crude Oil Refinery capacity utilization - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOEPPERC:IND

Less important ones...

Reserves at Oklahama (Oil traded on NYSE) - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOESCROK:IND

Gasoline Inventories - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOESTMGS:IND

Distillates Inventories - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=DOESDIST:IND

Percentage of analyst who feel oil is gonna rise next week - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=CMSECLBL:IND

Long bets on oil - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=.CLLRG:IND

Comparing this recession with post WII recessions

Very good post - http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/2009OutlookFinal_Long.pdf