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A Different Look at GDP and Inflation

…calendar quarter of each president’s inauguration is allotted to the previous administration. I’ve labeled the quadrants as follows, and indicated the frequency of data points populating each quadrant. Here are…

World Trade

…decline. Either way, there is a clear loss of momentum as the recovery ages. I don’t have a crystal ball, and I’m not going to make a prediction about the…

Big government has various definitions, actually…

…Security. Welcome to the Future—It’s Just Starting Now Like many of you, I have had a queasy feeling about the loss of privacy in the digital era. Every online transaction…