2016-12-20

Voodoo Economics

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Did the Reagan Tax Cuts boost Federal Government tax revenue? See the big peak on the left of the graph? That was 1981 Q4. The cuts were ...
2016-11-27

US Manufacturing has plateaued in the last 4 years

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This is from the OUTMS series from St Louis Fed .
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2016-10-31

US Industrial Decline in Progress - Recession Possible

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There has been a long term deterioration in US Industrial production, as shown in the INDPRO index. While monthly decreases happen all the...
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2016-10-26

Long-term over-investment

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In theory, investment should multiply growth. But it's not. Not since the early 1980s. The US Sharemarket has outperformed Gross Domes...
2016-03-24

Is it time for American Conservatives to embrace a different voting system?

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This is actually a very good time for American Conservatives to debate the issue of proportional representation and voting systems like ...
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2016-01-31

Random thoughts on energy, debt and economic growth

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There has always been a direct correlation between economic growth and the cost of energy: The cheaper the cost of energy, the greater the e...
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2016-01-23

Recession Looming?

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With a lot of focus on the potential for another recession, I thought I'd post some thoughts, as well as some graphs from various spread...
2015-05-12

Cost of oil consumption to US GDP

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Look at that recent drop. US Consumption hasn't dropped off dramatically. The Bond market has been going haywire recently and I'm s...
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World Food Production

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No Malthusian collapse in the offing yet.
2014-10-25

Chronic Pain and reflections on this blog

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My contributions to this blog have obviously decreased substantially since the glory days of the Global Financial Crisis and its immediate...
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