…tax policy correlates with growth in the US. The difference in “pro-poor” versus not “pro-poor” explains tax policy, and tax policy correlates with growth in the US. I suspect, but…

…demand remains weak. Furthermore, the still-nascent household deleveraging cycle is very likely moving at snail-speed (see this article for a discussion of the link between consumption growth, income growth, and…

by cactus Economic Growth: Blood Suckers v. Free Lunchers Good evening, and welcome to another episode of Comparing Presidents: Tax Burden v. Economic Growth. But looking at things from a…

…the year of origin. Early years: 2% productivity growth with 0.9% income growth, 5.6 savings, 3.5%economic growth Versus Bush years: 2.5% productivity growth, .01% income growth, 1.8% savings, 2.3% economic…

…is that cutting taxes produces faster economic growth. If you see it in the chart, let me know. And if you insist on giving Reagan credit for the growth rates…

…do to undermine the Kudlow et al. faster growth argument is to quote a Kudlow statistics – the US economy’s average annual growth rate from 1947 to 2000 has been…

…spending falls 2 months in a row“. But I’m actually more concerned about real income growth. Take a look at the following picture. It shows the 12-month growth in real…

…and investment demand, however, I see some good news in these numbers. Export demand growth was reported at 12.6% per year and imports fell. Fixed investment growth was reported at…

…employment-population ratio was 64.4%. Bottom line is that employment growth for 2004 was just enough to keep pace with population growth and not enough to reverse the lackluster performance for…

Liberalism and Growth Recently, I said I would try to make the case that liberalism causes growth. Certainly, correlations suggest that this is the case. For instance, income is substantially…