Interesting Factoids

Dear clients, family and subscribers, 

We recently came across some interesting facts that we thought were worthwhile sharing.  We certainly live in interesting times and let’s hope that the Australian government does not make the list in the future (by following in Italy’s footsteps).   

Interesting Factoids

• 18 years since US unemployment rate was this low
• 18 years since Australia rates were below US
• Betamax & VHS launched the last time UK unemployment was this low (1975)
• 159 Japanese jobs for every 100 applicants
• 6 Times increase in central bank assets from 2000 to 2018 (Fed, ECB, BoJ) 
• 65 elections in Italy since WW2 (with 43 changes in government)
• 23% 2018 Q1 earnings growth in US 
• 66% vs 60% days VIX has closed above 15 since inception vs 2018 YTD (20-Jun-2018) 
• 6% fall in EPS for Australian banks over the last 3 years 
• 100+ price to forward earnings for Netflix and Amazon at May 2018
• 8 World’s richest 8 people now own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6bn people
• 15 Years wealthiest 1% of US men live 15 years longer than poorest 1%
• 2.5mn number of global robots in 2020 (up from 1 million in 2010)

If you would like information on our sources of data, please do hesitate to contact us -

Email: chris@humphreywealth.com.au or call (07) 3368 2727.