…the real economy, and its resulting second-hand contribution to delivering things that humans value), both financial and human capital are diverted away from the real economy that produces stuff we…

…favors “serious tax reform” and “restructuring Medicare” — her interesting contribution was to restate Mr. Walker’s comment about “foreign lenders,” who might say “we’re not going to lend you any…

…including Estonia). In Greece, Spain, and Italy, the GDP share of export income has decreased over the last decade; furthermore, it’s imports, rather than exports, that make the larger contribution…

…of discontinuities. The rise of vaccines (with a possible contribution from the coincident rise of people getting a high school education) got the Developed World to the point where Major…

…the young. Let Old Folks Retire Early and Make Way for the Young was Galbraith’s contribution to Dan Froomkin’s Huffington Post series on job creation ideas. One comment in response…

…Ireland than in the rest of these locations, when a blockbuster drug is discovered, it is advantageous to play up the contribution of the researchers in Ireland and play down…

…terms hovers at its historical average; hence, the currency poses less of a risk to growth. The chart illustrates the contributions to non-annualized quarterly growth (not annualized, GDP grew near…

…US is 40% of NATO and the UN contribution should limit US troops far below 4,000, and these formations could be rotated from the Uniter States. Standing up a Kosovo…

…of these insights, however, continues to be controversial. In the 1990s, there was a heated debate about the possible contributions of trade to income inequality, with some eventual consensus among…

…above in Weisman’s contribution to journamalism). “Folks want to cut the deficit, but they say, ‘Don’t touch my Social Security. Don’t touch my Medicare. Don’t cut defense spending, and don’t…