by cactus Economic Catastrophes – Another Look at Economic Performance by Presidential Party Since we’re in a period of economic crisis, I started thinking about crises of the past. Its…

Another Look by Ken Melvin In the wake of riots following the Police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many other Black Americans, and Trump’s earlier installation the…

by Dale Coberly REALITY 101 ANOTHER LOOK AT CBO REPORT FOR THOSE FOREVER YOUNG I wrote a post the other day trying to explain what the CBO’s number meant when…

by Mike Kimel Another Look at Keynesianism and the Great Stagnation Cross-posted at the Presimetrics blog Last week I had a post noting that the US government followed more or…

rdan Another look at the budget deficit: Discussions of the budget outlook typically begin with the budget “baseline”… In building the baseline, CBO follows rules that … generally assume that…

…way to display the data, but not the only way. So lest someone cry out about that ol’ devil denominator, let’s have a different look. Via Paul Krugman we get…

…look at consumption and net worth, data from Fred. The next three graphs show personal consumption expenditures (PCE) as a decimal fraction of net worth (blue, left scale) along with…

Correlations and Slopes Over Time In Part 1, we looked at the ratio of consumption spending to net worth, and how it changed over time. This time we’ll look at…

…fast you can’t find space to put it all, it’s piling up so fast…. Sid. Look at him. Geezus. Five years younger than you and looks like he could be…

…politicians has been on the pricing of drugs without looking at the supply chain and the PBM’s influence on it; without looking at the costs of R & D, the…