Facts That Make A Difference
1. TOO MUCH - American consumers spend more money on average in 2 months than all the consumers in China and India spend in a year (source: Time Magazine).
2. BENEFIT OF FREE-TRADE - The purchase of lower-cost Chinese goods by US consumers has saved Americans $600 billion during the past decade compared to prices we would have had to pay for alternative higher-cost products (source: Wall Street Journal).
3. GROUNDED - There have been more than 150 bankruptcies in the airline industry since 1982 (source: Richard Gritta of the University of Portland, Denver Post).
4. A WASTE OF MY TIME? - 54% of American investors do not read financial literature (e.g., newspaper or magazine articles) because they believe the content is “too hard to understand” (source: AARP).
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