Everyone knows we're still in the depths of a Recession. Some indicators show improvement, some show worsening, some show no change at all. The aggregate indicators seem to converge on nothing really changing for anyone but a few small segments of our population (mostly the wealthiest and the poorest). Here's some interesting juxtaposed figures to make you scratch your head:
| Video Game Sales | Way Up | source: Reuters |
| Movie Box Office Revenue | Way Up | source: IMdB |
| Housing Prices | Continue to Fall | source: IRS |
| Commercial Real Estate Leases | Continue to Fall | source: Reuters |
| Mortgage Rates | Continue to Fall | source: Reuters |
| Employment | Steady at 10 percent | source: US BLS www.bls.gov |
| Number of Uninsured Americans | Continues to Rise | source: US CDC |
| U.S. Military Casualties Rate resulting from major limb damage | Relatively unchanged (since Vietnam conflict) | source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18176164 |
| U.S. Highway Vehicle Fatalities | Down | source: NHTSA/FARS |
| Tourism Inbound to U.S | UP | source: US DOC |
Doing the numbers so you don't have to.
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