…of a 20 percent drag on wage growth. As such, there does appear to be a connection between rising health insurance costs and wage growth among many firms. Labor Costs Are…

…this case. The standard argument is that economic growth is necessary to create jobs and that unemployment results from the slowing or interruption of growth. Even advocates of degrowth or…

…Josh’s points. Even with today’s slowdown, profit growth remains a big driver of inflation in recent years, Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens. The opening comment by Josh . . ….

…will be further quarters of weak wage growth relative to profits, as claims remain elevated above the 350k mark. 4. The contribution to GDI growth from net interest payments is…

…I have noted before that there is room for error in the measurement of the income data). The chart illustrates annual growth of disposable personal income minus annual growth of…

…growth rates are the one shown in Graph 1. At year to 4, growth rates are the shown in Graph 2. And so on and so forth. Here’s what that…

…taxes leads to faster economic growth.” In fact, it’s not even whispering. Another interesting thing we can do – we can look how the real private sector GDP growth compares…

…annualized growth rates and includes real GDP growth, consumption growth, and residential investment growth. The simple empirical point is that non-residential investment growth has been strong since 2003. To which…

…2001, that is, zero growth during Bush’s first term. While it is true that we have had better decent growth over the past year, the cumulative growth during the first…

As illustrated in my previous post, the growth of federal spending under Bush has actually been quite modest, other than in the categories of defense and health care. As a…