…the price index for energy services was 0.3% higher, after rising 3.0% in October . . . the energy commodity index was up 5.9% on a 6.1% increase in the…

…Through most of 2022, private domestic investment declined (Figures 1 and 2)—led by plummeting residential investments—but it has recently stabilized. The trajectory of these demand components doesn’t point to any…

…renewable energy, forest protection and energy efficiency measures, among others, to steer the world off the current path towards a “catastrophic” temperature increase of 2.6-3.1°C above pre-industrial levels over the…

From a Department of Energy report entitled Revolution… Now; The Future Arrives for Five Clean Energy Technologies – 2016 Update a nifty graph: (click to embiggen) If the graph is…

…in itself explains why they don’t understand the aims of Progressive Taxation. Label it how you like, the academic discipline that emerged from England in the 18th and 19th century…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…responsive to changes in private investment than personal consumption. Personal consumption expenditures, as a percentage of GDP, have a tendency to rise during economic contractions, while private fixed investment usually…

…by subtracting imports from exports. Investment uses an equation that also includes autonomous investment with a propensity to invest. Investment changes based on national income. So when we change GDI,…

…real investment in equipment was revised to show it grew at a 13.2% rate, revised from the 15.3% growth rate previously reported…at the same time, the quarter’s investment in intellectual…

…true with fixed investments. So fixed investments have a big disadvantage when they’re competing for “investment” dollars. A Financial Assets Tax would to some degree correct for that inherent market…