…than the incredibly low levels of a couple of years ago. While it is true the investment projects provide benefits over the long-term, they must be financed at some point…

…to reason that investment will lead the recovery even without a tax cut. Notice Canto offers no evidence that the 2003 tax cut led to more investment or employment for…

…investment demand. Most of us Keynesians expected an even more rapid return of export and investment demand than actually occurred given the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy. Has there been…

…the past couple of years has been driven by investment spending, both by businesses and on housing. But business spending slowed markedly in the beginning of 2005, and residential investment…

…(as in 1933 and 1934) that there is no investment anyway: if business confidence is already at its nadir, deficit spending cannot do any harm by reducing investment, and does…

…to read first). A couple of things that Luskin said left me shaking my head: What the “paper” really said was that, in computer simulations of past investment performance, an…

…Although the boom in residential investment (i.e. new housing construction) seems to have tapered off toward the end of 2004, business spending on nonresidential investment goods remained quite strong. Combined…

…an old Archer-Shaw proposal that was strongly criticized by Andrew Biggs in this Cato publication: The Archer-Shaw plan would let individuals make investment decisions, thereby reducing the likelihood of political…

…doing quite well of late, particularly the GDP growth has been over 4 percent since early in 2003. Investments grown strongly, productivity has grown strongly. The labor market was lagging…

…1.9 1.9 1.5 1.9 1.7 1.9 1.8 1.3 Demand Components Personal Consumption 3.4 3.2 1.8 1.6 2.1 1.9 2.5 1.8 Business Fixed Investment 2.2 2.1 13.1 -1.8 4.1 8.0 8.6…