by Rebecca Wilder Is Ireland the Poster Child of Growth? I wanted to familiarize myself with the economic statistics in Ireland, so I thought that I’d share my findings with…

…and fiscal policy is a drag. Americans are consuming; but there’s unlikely sufficient nominal income growth to stabilize consumption expenditure growth at current levels. We’ve seen years where consumption growth…

…to abide by conservative and/or libertarian philosophies when it comes to tax rates and growth is because I think the relationship between tax rates and economic growth can be at…

…record lows (see Mark Thoma’s post here), and Q2 ’09 annual disposable income growth was negative (a first since 1951). Not good for contemporaneous saving and spending growth. The next…

Job growth beginning in Q2 looks to be substantially revised downward  – by New Deal democrat Last week the Philadelphia Fed published a working paper suggesting that in the second quarter of…

…the YoY comparison was too optimistic as well: In my review of the 2025 Q1 QCEW, I concluded that it was “suggesting there might not have been any job growth…

by Mike Kimel The 1964 Tax Cuts and Economic Growth – Paul Ryan Edition During last week’s Vice Presidential debates, Paul Ryan stated: “Jack Kennedy lowered tax rates, increased growth.”…

Spain vs. Germany vs. UK: production trends showing holes in some growth stories Eurostat reports new orders for January: In January 2011 compared with December 2010, the euro area1 (EA17)…

…35%, etc.). Growth rates are the median observed for each range. For ranges which did not occur in the real world, growth rates are left blank. Top marginal tax rates…

…of productivity growth is not quickly reversing. Weaker productivity growth is bad for profits growth that historically leads income and employment growth. Weak productivity could imply that manufacturing employment growth…