Endettement :  31 % of gross domestic product mondial !  (Europe 26 %. Japan 12 %)

The debt exterior :  2002 : thirty miles billion dollars. 1964 : Ten miles billion dollars.

Deficit running: To deal with deficit running of 500 billion dollars, in annual progression of 10 %, one needs re-entries of almost 2 billion dollars per working day, that is to say the equivalent of 76 % of surplus balance of world current payments.

Interior financial debt of the companies : 2002 : 7 620 billion dollars (Either 72 % hard gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States.) 1964 : 53 billion dollars

Debt of the american households : 2002 : 7200 billion dollars. 1964 : 200 billion dollars (In 1985 this debt represented 26 % of the annual income, 40 % at the end of 2002)

Commercial Balance : the imports exceed of 42 % the value of exports.

Dollar : It lost 12 % of its value vis-a-vis a basket of other currencies since January 2002. It lost 26 % of its value vis-a-vis Euro since 2000 (one of the strongest " skids " since the end of the second world war.)

Investment foreigners, value of the strangers credits : 1000 billion dollars in 1990. 500 billion dollars in
2003 (the fall of index NASDAQ concerning new technologies was at the top March 2000 being at 5046 points, it is actuellemnt below 1300 points).

The foreign investors hold more than 18 % of the stock exchange capitalization of the American credits in the long run and 42 % of the stock of the Treasury bills. (In the event of krack major announced, these sums could leave the country in some clic of mouse)

The corporation tax in 2001, it represents 8,9 % of the budget fédéral . It represented 25 % in 1950, the ratio of the wages between the chairmen and the workmen was 1 to 40 in 1970, it is 1 to
531 today.

The unemployment : 4,4 % in February 2000, 6,4 % in February 2003. (Source official according to the American ministry of the work, very largely under estimated according to economists'.)

The 10 000 families with the highest incomes have the equivalent of the credits of the 20 million the poorest families.

Index of confidence of the consumers according to the index of the " Board"  Conference:
at the beginning of 2003: 80 (at the beginning of 2000: 145)

Military Budget : 400 billion $ $ $, is almost the cumulated budget of the other states of planet.

(Source : Frederic F Clairmont, economist. The Diplomatic World, April, p. 20, 21.)