…of their tax base. But could these changes adversely affect business activity? The OECD acknowledges that investment costs would rise, but estimates that the impact on investment would be minor. Tibor…

…“fund smart investments in our future, like clean energy innovation to mitigate climate change, universal child care, student loan debt relief, infrastructure modernization, tax credits for low-income families, public health…

…billion. As you can infer from that summary, construction spending is included in 3 subcomponents of GDP; investment in private non-residential structures, investment in residential structures, and in government investment…

…especially a falling working-age population – tends to reduce some important kinds of spending, especially investment spending. After all, if the number of workers is declining, there’s less need to…

…battery and electric-vehicle plants are in planing or already under construction thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act funding such projects in order to attract private investment. That government investment and…

…return they might get from a “safe” investment.  What they do not get is the level or return they might have gotten from riskier investments. Nor do they get the…

…causes production. Saving, in and of itself, doesn’t create new assets or cause economic activity. Quite the contrary, really, compared to the spending counterfactual. 6. “Investment” is not investment “Investing”—the technical…

…other companies have moved to Vietnam. All this could be interpreted as examples of countries using their comparative advantage to produce exports and attract foreign investment. But Cass states that…

…investment has allowed it to run at the pre-pandemic trend despite headwinds from sectors sensitive to higher interest rates. Both direct public investment efforts and certain tax provisions have helped crowd-in…

…private fixed investment rose 0.7% in Q4. In real terms, it was up 0.3%: As you can see, both in nominal and real terms investment in housing has been increasing…