…growth in services… Meanwhile, seasonally adjusted real gross private domestic investment shrunk at a 4.0% annual rate in the 2nd quarter, revised from the 3.5% investment contraction reported last month,…

…previously reported, while real investment in equipment grew at 2.8% rate, revised up from the 2.4% growth rate shown a month ago . . . meanwhile, the quarter’s investment in…

…The main reason Romney’s effective rate is so low is that the American tax code contains a lot of preferences for investment income over labor income. . . . But…

…basically followed a pattern of increased intensity of energy usage, and civilization has basically been a quest for higher energy use. And we are not using the energy rationally: “Urban…

…energy. In the long run, renewable energy is the only alternative, and we should move in that direction. Meanwhile, I propose a national fleet of hot air balloons. Each balloon…

…energy prices induced significant investments in energy conservation and systems optimization.” They further refine the explanation with: “The marginal productivity of capital has started to increase whereas the marginal productivity…

…“sides” of the argument.. just show the EROEI – Energy Returned On Energy Invested. Energy invested for Pennsylvania oil? Not much. Energy invested for shale oil? Until extraction techniques are…

…about moving your money. An alternative economics committee had already started on that effort and the alternative banking committee agreed to let them run with that ball. Although this group…

…freedom encouraged more private investment. We’ve already dealt with the supposed boom, but what about private investment? Was private investment really booming in the post-WW2 era relative to the pre-WW2…

…investments are worthwhile they shouldn’t need to be subsidized. That’s right–the cost of this subsidy is $20 billion in tax revenues. And these investment fund managers argue that if they…