Wow. Just wow. Here are just 10 reasons why you should be thankful for the time in which you live. We are truly living in the age of honey and wine.
- Best employment environment in history*** - Not just low unemployment but highest number of open jobs compared to pre-pandemic
- 66% of Americans own a house valued at record levels** - Huge driver of household wealth
- Wages growing much faster than inflation**** - People are gaining in real terms
- 401Ks are growing and higher than any time before the pandemic***** - Congratulations!
- Record levels in the stock market - Doesn’t help everyone but a good measure of confidence
- Record amount of Americans with health insurance* - Thanks Obamacare!
- Crime rates falling in an era of near historically low crime levels****** - Quit crying about outliers, you are safer than ever
- America is fighting zero wars - Yep… Biden has us in zero wars and the only one to get us out of one.
- US based manufacturing is rocketing up as companies “reshore” ******
- FSU and Georgia iced out of the NCAA playoffs!
*Health insurance:
Between 1990 and 2021, the number of Americans having health insurance climbed by almost 40%.
www.statista.com
**Home ownership:
Parse the latest U. S. homeowner data, facts and statistics by age, race, gender — and learn how economic trends have impacted homeownership.
www.bankrate.com
***Job Openings & Unemeployment
Graph and download economic data for Job Openings: Total Nonfarm (JTSJOL) from Dec 2000 to Dec 2025 about job openings, vacancy, nonfarm, and USA.
fred.stlouisfed.org
Investors' soft landing narrative is once again put to the test with the release of the December jobs report.
finance.yahoo.com
****Wages growth faster than prices
Most workers’ wages are growing more quickly than prices, and the economic recovery following the COVID-19 recession has featured historically strong real wage growth.
www.americanprogress.org
*****401K values
2,614 economic data series with tag: Retirement. FRED: Download, graph, and track economic data.
fred.stlouisfed.org
****** Crime
Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.
www.nbcnews.com
Maufacturing:
The U.S. manufacturing sector is benefitting from firms reshoring their operations from overseas back to the U.S. as they try to mitigate vulnerabilities in their supply chains.
www.foxbusiness.com