Is this a healthy economy?
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The Economy in Context: May 2019
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Americans Are a Cheap (And Stupid) Date
Are we missing something?
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The Economics Quarterly: February 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
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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A Battle of Wits with the Unarmed
The Trumplican's argument as to why labor force participation hasn't increased? It's too hard, because Baby Boomers.
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The Economy in Context: August 2018
Despite numerous deregulation victories and his incessant bragging in 2016, Trump's economy has created more jobs than Obama's second term (post recession) economy only 7 out of the last 20 months.
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The Economy In Context: July 2018
At 157,000 net jobs created, the preliminary numbers in the July Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in well below the 190,000 jobs expected by market watchers, and well below the average established during Obama's second term.
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Piercing the Republican Propaganda
The Republican pundit class is lying right into our faces, pouring falsehoods and delusions right onto the heads of the tens of millions of Americans so desperate to believe in the infallibility of their political movement that they believe everything that they're told.
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The Economics Quarterly: April 2018
The economy continues to roll ahead however isn't without blemishes.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q4
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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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q2
GDP GROWTH DATA The GDP Growth Rate for 2017 Quarter 1 was officially 1.4%, considerably below the 15-year mean, which includes the 2007-2008 recession that makes that number considerably easier to beat. The 4-year trend …
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q1
The economy has been moving upward since about 2015, but, from a purely political standpoint, much of this growth could be attributed to the general impression that the political winds were going to change in Washington.
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Riding the Black Horse
One of the central pillars of socialism is that government not only can maintain control over every element of the economy but must do so.
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A Short Word: You Are Here
American voters have put a gun to the head of America's future in an ultimate game of Russian Roulette.
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Economics Speed Round: November 2016
As we look toward the end of the year and the 4th Quarter, the change in political leadership could change the economic landscape, depending on how quickly the Congress and White House can enact whatever policy they plan on pushing forward.
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Breaking Through the Wall
As the Chinese discovered thousands of years ago, the building of a wall, or hundreds of walls, as the case may be, does not actually prevent people from entering the country if that's what they want to do.
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A Difference Without Significance
There's nothing more frustrating than watching a disaster unfold while fully knowing that it could have and should have been averted.
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Natural Demand: The Keynesian Farce
These companies always fail, and the reason they fail always comes down to the same miscalculation: Artificial Demand is artificial, and everyone knows it.
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Natural Demand: The Frozen Cage
It is "Natural Demand" that ultimately fuels innovation and incentivizes exactly the type of risk taking that ignited the rapid growth from the late 1790's through the 1890's and early 1900's.
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Conservative Party Now, Seriously
So what is going to happen? If anything is going to happen at all, we will need a functional, "big tent, firm foundation" political party that represents the values of enough Americans to gain political efficacy, in the next four to eight years.
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A Short Word: Sitting for Freedom
To compel others to violate their conscience simply because it is "nationalist" carries the poisonous stink of Mao's Communist Party loyalty patrols.
Liberty is For The Win 