…rate of growth of US per capita real GDP growth has been 2.1%– calculated as the exponential growth rate from 1945 to 2009. This chart shows the level of US…

…Democratic presidents. President Democratic presidents raise taxes. Republican presidents lower them. Alert the media. (This graph shows nicely why I don’t pay much attention to three- and four-year lags for…

…the format informative and I think will continue the conversation. To avoid any confusion I will label ‘open threads’ as such for any subject, and use the term ‘topical threads’…

…published June 2010. DolB: I am a liberal. A label that “progressive” is used in exchange with. I am not a radical, fascist, loony, left winged, socialist, commie. In fact,…

…released early Saturday morning still puts the matter as follows: Yesterday CBO released a preliminary analysis, conducted with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), of H.R. 3200,…

…there is a column equating to ‘Income – Cost’ which is labeled ‘Net increase during the Year’. Now the Trustees don’t label this as ‘Surplus’ but there is little doubt…

…purchasing companies] were known as “leveraged-buyout operators.” But LBO became a bad name. … Their new label became “private equity,” a name that turns the facts upside-down: A purchase of…

…I won’t go into this forever, but one remark I will leave with you is the financial world follows a normal distribution pattern. If you think that you’re a financial…

…a lesson in buying local, especially now that the web allows one to do long distance local buying. It is a lesson reflecting the issue of the middle man economy…

…the past several months: hope and change. In the end, did Ms. Parker know she was so prophetic? That’s potent medicine. It also should come with a warning label: “May…