thing, it is a good time to be in the alcohol business, even though as we ve been reporting today, some vice-related products like tobacco are getting more pushback on the retailer side. it was a record year for the liquor industry. tell us about that. yep. we ve got a big global thirst and we saw experts spike beyond the $1 billion mark for the very first time ever for last year, so bourbon and tennessee whisky revenues shot up higher here at home, rising by a projected 10.2% last year. it is really great news for the industry. it was the fourth straight year of record exports for these american made or american crafted spirits. you re probably wondering which countries around the world are enjoying the spirits, japan, number one, then germany, france, the uk, and you know what had the largest overall increase? nigeria. can t get enough of it apparently. real quick, mandy, is this because people like to drink?
so what else won t you be hearing from the president tonight? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr., speech guy and speech writing in your background. what should we be hearing and what won t we be hearing? at optimism is an attitude. not a plan. you won t be hearing certain things that other americans understand about where our economy really is. let s look at the current debt. $17.2 trillion. 38% of that, accumulated during the obama administration. look at national unemployment, 6.7, brian. what s the real rate? the rate of the missing, those who said i m giving up on trying to find work. 10.2%. who are the people that have given up on the job hunt? about half of them are between 25 and 54. so it s kind of a staggering array of statistics that the president will not be talking about tonight. let s talk about young
that actually there is a lot that can be changed quite quickly. there really is consensus here. i think you are right about the 1988 campaign that you would never know we ended up here. but i do think very much that like while they may have acted some people in their desire to pardon some president, some governor, i think there is a wide belief that everything that took place is for the longer working. i think part of the story is we put this up before, it s still, i can t get overlooking at it. the difference between the political climate of 1984, we have this poll here, asking voters what is the top issue of the country? crime? crime rates were early 1990s, take the same poll 19 years later in 2013, what s the top issue? 2%, 1% saying drugs. if you look at if homicide rate compare it over the last 60 years. it peaked at over 10.2 for
get a tax credit for hiring someone that s been unimploempl. these folks are really in trouble. we should do both, right? we should help the folks that are still in trouble. kevin is right, there is an element of the unemployment rate that is there because of the ui program. but even given that, it s been people that stay unemployed because they can get enough from unemployment. yes. there is a lot of research and debate. but my estimates, 10.2 3% of unemployment is due to the ui program. the net benefit of this is very significant. kevin is right. we have to work on long term employment. i just say that i disagree we should do both in the following sentence. what we should do, if you want to give more money to people currently unemployed. just give them the money. give them a lump sum of cash. don t make them stay unemployed for another three months to get the checks. if you give them a lump sum of cash, they go out for a job right away. a lot of the long term
into the equation at the moment. that s earning season. we re waiting on our brands tonight that will come after market close here and the big question is are these companies going to deliver. that s what we re waiting and watching on. the expectations have been driven down. i think we re now expecting something around the 5.5%. back april first it was 10 to 10.2%. so you can see how the analysts have lowered their expectations. it s always a bit of a trick because companies have a low hurdle to step over. right. but the market will be waiting to see whether we can deliver on the growth side. just to move you on here, it s another story i think is fascinating. fannie mae, freddie mac, the bailout, what problems it did to the u.s., well, the europeans, they have looked at the story and said, you know what, we might like some of that. okay. we don t want the bubble like