…when population growth slowed to historically low levels, the slowest rate of growth in the 20th century was from 1918-1919 amid the influenza pandemic and WW I. The U.S. population…

…reason(s). Meanwhile the news is using scare tactics to sell more news and gain more advertising. Fear is a profitable business to be in. AI, Job Loss, and Productivity Growth,…

…was the leading contributor to growth in Idaho, the state with the second-largest increase in real GDP. In contrast, this industry was the leading offset to growth in Nebraska and…

…so, wage growth peaked in 2022 at ~8% (BLS) and is now at ~5% (BLS) as depicted (YOY). Hourly wage growth averaged a 4.1% annualized rate in the past three…

…and Lehman Brothers, the giant investment banks. The resulting recession again meant a huge divergence between projected growth and actual growth. In January of 2008, CBO projected GDP growth of…

…is still some occasional similarity of motion, but the coordination breaks down and debt growth is generally quite a bit higher than GDP growth. The 80’s in particular stand out…

…on capital as the driver of growth? Money from money? Are we seeing in their explanation that part of our growth that is borrowed from our future, thus artificially created?…

In my last post, I used World Bank data to look at the effect of net migration on economic growth. Net migration is defined by the World Bank as the…

…and wage growth. One graph I used to regularly update was the U6 underemployment rate vs. YoY wage growth, which is a “long lagging” metric. In other words, typically an…

…of population growth. Without population growth, the nation will have issues with a shortages of Labor. The #1 source of U.S. population growth? Immigrants like me by Johann Harnoss Linked…