…to $0.5 trillion. In the first example, assume national savings is $3 trillion so investment is $3.5 trillion. In the second example, assume national savings is $0.3 trillion so investment…

…Despite all the NRO cheerleading about how investment demand has roared under the Bush fiscal regime, about half of the crowding-out came from a reduction in investment relative to GDP….

Joseph Stiglitz is editor of The Economists’ Voice and has this article in its inaugural edition. He notes that long-term fiscal stimulus crowds out investment – a theme he also…

…– they were allegedly foreigners financing a rise in U.S. investment. Only problem was that the Reagan fiscal stimulus crowded-out investment but lowered national savings even more. For this most…

…any other economy, aside from its rapid growth, is the lopsided balance between consumption and investment. All successful economies devote part of their current income to investment rather than consumption,…

…investment given the actual level of income and actual expectations for future income. 2. What would equilibrate desired saving and investment if income were at the natural rate (LRAS) and…

…is investment incentives, prompted by Louise Story’s “United States of Subsides” series last December. Story moderated panel 1, which covered the pervasiveness of subsidies. How widely used are investment subsidies?…

…for Wilcox County) cannot give more than 50% of the cost of the investment (2014 regional aid guidelines, point 172), and for an investment this large that maximum would be…

…between domestic consumption and production gives national saving. So lower labor share is driving the Current Account surpluses in Europe. Low Investment “Restrained domestic demand (high saving and low investment)…

…the popular press) to Mark Thoma (via, er, Mark Thoma): Private investment could be increased by lowering the interest rate with monetary policy, but since the interest rate is as…