I posted this graph yesterday which has 234 data points from 1954 to 2016… The graph implies that as profit rates come easier over the nominal cost of money the percentage of gross private investment to GDP tends downward. I tweeted this graph to Miles Kimball who is in favor of negative nominal rates. Negative […]
Coming soon: President Barack Obama, who’s expected to campaign [in Florida] at least twice before Election Day. First Lady Michelle Obama — more popular than her husband — will likely visit Florida as well, in addition to the ad she cut for Clinton that’s currently airing on Florida radio. “Hillary Clinton’s campaign is in panic mode. […]
Asked by Holt what he would do to prevent cyberattacks, Trump replied: “As far as the cyber . . . we should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC [Democratic National Committee]. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia. . . . Maybe it was. . . . […]
Authored by Mike Kimel I straddle a couple of economic worlds. In my day job, I run the Pricing and Market Analytics group for a foreign manufacturing company. But I also retain at least an ear to the ground in a small business my wife and I started about seven years ago. We buy, fix […]
He was the very best—a personal hero of mine.
Nick Confessore Reporter 9:20 PM ET Just to pull back for a second here, you can see a part of Clinton’s strategy. She is not campaigning against him as a crazy man. She is campaigning against him as a traditional and, in her argument, flawed conservative Republican. — First Clinton and Trump Debate: Analysis, New […]
Stan Fischer: “I think we’d be better off if there was a price for using money, or for not investing, in terms of monetary returns” — Matthew B (@boes_) September 27, 2016 Data link… Red circle is 2nd quarter 2016.
I actually really liked Clinton tonight. I mean, her. I liked her. I didn’t think that could happen. And it wasn’t just because Trump was so awful. It feels good.
Mike Kimel continues his discussion on how Immigration impacts Job Creation. In this post, I am looking at how the percentage of a state’s population that is made up of immigrants affects job creation. After all, we hear from some quarters that immigrants create jobs, and from others that immigrants take away jobs that would […]