Personal Finance Articles
The Personal Stats: https://www.freedomdebtrelief.com/newsroom/survey-americans-increased-debt-no-savings/
Investor Pulse: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/insights/investor-pulse?cid=twitterads_adaptlycampaign_phase2
10 Incredible Financial Statistics That Sum Up the Average American:
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/03/31/10-incredible-financial-statistics-that-sum-up-the.aspx
Poll: Two-thirds of US would struggle to cover $1,000 crisis: http://www.apnorc.org/news-media/Pages/News+Media/Poll-Two-thirds-of-US-would-struggle-to-cover-$1,000-crisis.aspx
U.S. Survey Data at a Glance: http://www.usfinancialcapability.org/results.php?region=US#planning-ahead
Student Loan Debt in the US:
https://gflec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GFLEC-Brief-Student-loan-debt.pdf
Older Student Loan Borrowers: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201701_cfpb_OA-Student-Loan-Snapshot.pdf
National Endowment for Financial Education - Polls: https://www.nefe.org/press-room/polls/default.aspx
2018 American Household Credit Card Debt Study: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/average-credit-card-debt-household/
All the disturbing reasons behind the ‘meteoric rise’ in Americans’ debt: Link
How much money do you need to be wealthy in America: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/how-much-money-do-you-need-to-be-wealthy-in-america
Too much money (and too few places to invest it): https://www.axios.com/money-companies-investors-assets-buybacks-dividends-f0a4d79b-bfa7-4205-9d27-f09b50266307.html
Wealthy Americans Say Financial Worries Hurt Their Mental Health:
56% of Americans Loosing Sleep Because of Finance: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/financial-worries-keep-most-americans-up-at-night?srnd=premium
Macro Trend Articles
WEALTH INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1913: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2016QJE.pdf + https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich?srnd=premium-europe
The Shrinking Middle Class by the Numbers:
Our Biggest Economic, Social, and Political Issue: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-biggest-economic-social-political-issue-two-economies-ray-dalio
Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-reformed-ray-dalio
Top Wealth Shares in the United States: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/uswealth/
Consumer Credit Outstanding (Levels):
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/HIST/cc_hist_sa_levels.html
The Global Population:
https://ourworldindata.org/population-aged-65-outnumber-children
Fed Stats: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-finance-institute/statistics
Big Lenders: https://www.relbanks.com/rankings/top-us-mortgage-lenders
The Balance Sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/z1/balance_sheet/chart/