…terms hovers at its historical average; hence, the currency poses less of a risk to growth. The chart illustrates the contributions to non-annualized quarterly growth (not annualized, GDP grew near…

…growth averaged 2.8%. In the second or low productivity era, running from 1974 to 1995, productivity growth slowed to 1.5% before rebounding to 2.4% since 1995. But real GDP growth…

…of the Celtic Tiger: Most theories of economic growth can be dismissed as an explanation for the rapid growth of the Irish economy. The thesis of this paper is that…

…“Terrible” (red) job growth — categories that collectively indicate monthly job growth in a year below 0.02% — lasted more than two years. President Bush is the only one of…

…weren’t such a drag, would we (finally) be experiencing robust growth? (Business investment growth also dropped, but 1. it remained positive, still adding to growth, and 2. it’s only 10%…

…the total population. Graph 1 – U.S Population Growth since 1952 The precipitous growth rate drop through the sixties came to an abrupt halt in 1969, when early boomers like…

…and growth (remember don’t reject the alternative). I have no idea about the association between strong trade unions and growth. Finally a whole lot of the raw correlation is due…

Real aggregate wage growth finally overtakes Reagan expansion In my opinion the best measure of how average Americans’ situations have improved during an economic expansion is real aggregate wage growth….

…seem to limit economic growth with a rate of about 60% seeming to divide the restricted growth phase from the unrestricted growth phase. There might be a little falloff when…

…has the highest real wage growth at 6.53%, while Tennessee has the lowest at -2.68%. Other states with higher growth include Colorado (3.52%) and Mississippi (3.24%). States with lower growth…