by Mike Kimel Four Graphs Looking at Real Economic Growth This post contains four graphs looking at real economic growth, three of which also contain some tax information. The first…

…politicians who are supposed to be looking out for us? “U.S. Economic Confidence Ticks Down as Partisans’ Views Shift,” Gallup Gallup’s January 2025 Economic Confidence Index (ECI) stands at -19,…

…writing overly long and abstruse economic blog posts, watching NASCAR, assembling intricate miniatures of Civil War battle scenes. In economic terms, the demand for employment is quite elastic because there’s…

…is now being called the “Crime of the Century” by at least one syndicated columnist, White House press secretary Carney admitted he hadn’t discussed LIBOR with the President, but assured…

…so could not be explained with either branch of Liberal Economics, neither the Manchester or the Marxist versions of economic development really fitting the realities of pre-modern rural history.) But…

…Labour Party came into being at the end of the century it was organized specifically on all three lines. Which leads to two questions. One was the classical economics stemming…

…a nineteenth century liberal economist and a nineteenth century liberal manufacturer. When examined in the historical perspective of the centuries before and close to two centuries after you see an…

Greatest Twenty of the Twentieth, as compiled from Conservative bloggers John Hawkins’ [Right Wing] Bloggers Select The Greatest Figures Of The 20th Century is up now. A few of the…

…readers, with the quote: “It seems rather unlikely that private economic activity is poised to accelerate under these conditions.” Mish concurs, and so do I. The graph shows Growth in…

…really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price–determined by supply and demand, the…