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  • The Economy in Context: July 2020

    Posted by LIFTW on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

    This is chaos.

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  • The Economy in Context: June (and May) 2020

    Posted by LIFTW on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

    How do we compare these numbers to anything approximating a functioning economy?

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  • The Economy in Context: March 2020

    Posted by LIFTW on March 9, 2020March 9, 2020

    While the job numbers indicate a fairly normal uptick in jobs created, other key numbers remain weak, and the corvid-19 pandemic threat to international markets continues to grow. 

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  • The Economy in Context: February 2020

    Posted by LIFTW on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020

    Donald Trump is on track to be the first US president in American history to oversee an economy that doesn't reach a very modest 4% GDP growth for even a single quarter during his entire term in office.

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  • The Economy in Context: November 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on November 2, 2019November 2, 2019

    The economy is not in the best of shape presently, and this becomes even more obvious the more the administration tries to pressure the Federal Reserve Board to further lower interest rates, and yet the pundits continue to claim that things are going well.

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  • The Economy in Context: October 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on October 5, 2019October 9, 2019

    One thing is for sure, this isn't the rapid growth economy we were sold.

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  • The Economy in Context: August 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

    The current administration is desperate to have American voters believe their blatant mediocrity is somehow better than the blatant mediocrity of the prior administration...

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  • The Economy in Context: April 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on April 6, 2019April 6, 2019

    There are a lot of indications, not least of which the rhetoric coming out of the White House, that the economy is not as strong as has been sold.

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  • The Economy in Context: March 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on March 9, 2019March 9, 2019

    The only thing keeping the United States economy out of a significant recession have been low interest rates...

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  • The Economics Quarterly: February 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on March 2, 2019March 2, 2019

    It is obvious something is holding the economy back, but no one is dealing with the underlying problem.

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  • The Economy in Context: February 2019

    Posted by LIFTW on February 2, 2019February 2, 2019

    Trade talks with China remain a wild card that can stave off an economic slowdown in 2019, or, if things go south in trade negotiations, take the economy of both countries down with it.

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  • The Economy in Context: December 2018

    Posted by LIFTW on December 8, 2018December 8, 2018

    [T]he president's misbegotten policies are presently the biggest factors in the market today.

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  • The Economy in Context: November 2018

    Posted by LIFTW on November 3, 2018November 3, 2018

    Americans should remain skeptical of the rosy picture painted by the latest jobs report, because fundamental problems in the economy remain.

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  • The Economy in Context: October 2018

    Posted by LIFTW on October 6, 2018October 6, 2018

    The current administration's economy has only outperformed the average performance of the previous administration (post recession) eight months out of the last twenty-one months, or roughly one-third of the time.

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  • Busting 4 of Trump’s Economic Myths

    Posted by LIFTW on June 20, 2018June 21, 2018

    [O]ne thing Trump is very good at is claiming responsibility for the things that are going right for the United States economy, but these claims don't actually hold up to any rigorous scrutiny.

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  • Economy In Context: The March 2018 Jobs Numbers

    Posted by LIFTW on April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

    This simply isn't good news for the Trump economy.

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  • The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q4

    Posted by LIFTW on January 7, 2018January 19, 2018

    By all objective measures, the economy generated fewer jobs in 2017 than the previous 3 years. This isn't political punditry, it's merely a statement of fact.

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