Brad DeLong responds to Paul Krugman’s post on The Profits-Investment Disconnect. Why are profits high, but investment low? Brad DeLong says… “Profits are not high now because demand is high,…

…in healthy business cycles. He says… “The bottom three-quarters of the wealth distribution basically has no investment income.” This fact applies all the time in the economy… So why not…

…GDP G = real Government consumption expenditures and gross investment I = real Gross private domestic investment CPIall = year over year % change of CPI for all items. ED…

…spending more as it is investment that creates the capital needed to grow the nation. Focusing just from the view summed up in the phrase “tax and spend” misses what…

…million at an exchange rate of $1.35 per euro (and the euro is down to less than $1.15 now). Boeing, Sempra Energy, Intel, Cerner Corporation, Cheniere Energy, Shell, Tesla, and…

…of Productive Investment Adair Turner recognizes the lack of productive investment. Is it really due to deleveraging like he says? With all the great respect for Adair Turner that I…

…in the future. The latter is investment. … Accordingly, the demand for current output is attributable to consumption and to investment. In other words, total or aggregate demand, is the…

Stan Fischer: “I think we’d be better off if there was a price for using money, or for not investing, in terms of monetary returns” — Matthew B (@boes_) September…

CPAC had a gathering of Republican Governors today. As Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) on Twitter noted, the Brownback/Walker/etc. panel was called “How to ruin your state’s economy with one easy tax…

…be now (hint: low). “HQ2,” which Amazon has stated will amount to an eventual $5 billion in investment, will receive a subsidy package worth over $5 billion in nominal value…