One Salient Oversight

The pontifications of an Evangelical Polymathic Cassandra

2017-11-24

US per capita economic growth has collapsed since 2008

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This is hardly a surprise for those who have been looking at economic stats. Above is a graph I have done based on a bunch of stats availa...
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2017-10-09

Did the US suffer two mild recessions in 2016?

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My spreadsheet is indicating that the US had two short recessions in 2016: 2016 Q2 and 2016 Q4. Now of course this is really weird, so I...
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2017-09-24

My current understanding of the root of modern day Islamic Terrorism

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This is my current understanding of the root of modern day Islamic Terrorism : Hundreds of years ago on the Arabian Peninsula, the new ...
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2017-03-18

US Industrial Production - a slow decline since November 2014

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This graph shows the performance of US industrial production for the past ten years. The "cliff dive" of the Great Financial Cri...
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2017-02-28

US Defense Spending, and Trump's increase

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Donald Trump has decided to increase defense spending : The US military is already the world's most powerful fighting force and the U...
2017-02-22

Japan: GDP vs Energy Use

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I found this interesting graph on Wikipedia: What it shows is empirical evidence that GDP and energy use don't always hav...
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2017-01-18

US Public Debt as percentage of GDP

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Five periods of history can be see here. 1. 1970-1982, the years of Nixon, Ford and Carter, where debt remained level at approximately 2...
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2017-01-12

How Mexico can pay for the wall

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Mexico holds US Treasury bonds as part of its international reserve. In October last year, they had $45.9 Billion. Link here . Assuming ...
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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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