…of years ago, showing some excellent long-term evidence that higher marginal tax rates are not associated with slower growth. Quite the contrary, in fact. Here you go: Mike Kimel once…

…Reagan to achieve higher GDP growth than his predecessor was Clinton, other than that, it’s been a downward spiral. – Carter had below average GDP growth by a slight margin,…

…growth ever. But remember the denominator effect. Nominal GDP growth increased rapidly following the ’80-’82 double recession; while GDP growth in this century has been generally slow. The financial melt-down…

…some time Mandel has been arguing strongly that the official productivity data significantly over states productivity growth. Economist debate what drives productivity growth, but no one denies that growth in…

By Mike Kimel Optimal Tax Rates for Generating Economic Growth According to Barro-Sahasakul Tax Data This piece is a bit more wonky than what I normally post. I recently re-read…

…look at it (i.e., growth over several years, growth over one year, going back to 1929, focusing only on the period since Reagan took office, etc) that correlation might be…

…Kong contributed another robust +6.2pps of growth. In contrast to the Philippines April numbers, The Netherlands contribution to Chinese export growth remained strong, contributing 1.5pps in May. Chinese exports are…

…impact of the New Deal on economic growth. Source: http://www.measuringworth.org/datasets/usgdp/result.php The eight year growth to 1940 of real per capita GDP was some 50%, the strongest eight years in US…

…population growth so that the female employment population ratio has been rising. Basically, this is looking at the growth in demand vs the growth in supply. For males supply growth…

…equation that more growth equals more profits for investors is simply not borne out by history. FASTER economic growth means higher returns for investors. That is a big part of…