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A Different Look at GDP and Inflation

…an entire 8-year term. Graph 3 shows the Nixon-Ford (orange), Carter (blue), and Reagan (red) administrations. Graph 3 CPI and GDP, Nixon-Ford, Carter, Reagan Here we find three increasingly extreme…

Basic Macroeconomics

…(1953 – 1961) -JFK/LBJ (1961 – 1969) -Nixon/Ford (1969 – 1977) -Reagan (1981 – 1989) -Clinton (1993 – 2001) -Bush 2 (2001 – 2009) (FDR’s first 8 years are included,…

Rules to Write By

…events that happened 13 years after he left office. Also, explain why some predecessor of Reagan’s isn’t responsible for growth during Reagan’s administration. 15. In economics, time moves in a…

Luskin’s Thesis: Putting Things into Perspective

…Odd that Larry would try to tell his readers Reagan reduced government spending when most of his free-lunch supply-side buddies blame the Reagan deficits on runaway government spending and not…

Record Foreign Investment and the Reagan-Bush Tax Cuts Let’s discuss two recent interpretations of the large current account deficits. First up is a good article from Reuters with the news…

…least for fans of Ronald Reagan; neither Bush fares well on the jobs metric: Reagan emerged as the leader, with 53 of the 100 markets posting their highest job-growth rates…