…real final sales growth rate of 1.5% in the 4th quarter, when the big increase in inventory growth meant that the quarter’s growth in real final sales was much smaller…

…the 2.7% growth rate reported last month to indicate real PCE growth a 3.1% rate with this estimate . . . that growth figure was arrived at by deflating the…

…modestly in the second quarter for all workers and private-industry workers. If the slower job growth primarily reflected weakening labor demand, it would likely have depressed wage growth. Slower growth…

…otherwise). Growth rates deflated by population growth to yield per capita growth rates. Again, there appears to be no relationship between capital income tax rates and economic growth. There is…

…of living without growing its G.D.P.? It’s a false assumption to say that growth is increasing the standard of living in the present world because we measure growth as growth…

…had generally been expected. However the reason for the miss was a sharp slowing in inventory growth, which subtracted 0.93 percentage points from GDP for the quarter. The growth rate…

…above graph is wrong – it is not so much that higher tax burdens are correlated with faster economic growth, but rather that administrations that produced rapid economic growth tended…

by Mike Kimel Tax Rates and Economic Growth Over Ten Year Time Horizons, plus Why a Flat Tax Would Result in Much Slower Economic Growth Last week I had a…

…between marginal rates and growth, despite the commonly accepted story line about how higher marginal rates lead to slower economic growth. Making matters worse for conventional wisdom, the correlation between…

RJS: MarketWatch 666 Summary: modest revision. The internals were revised as much as I’ve ever seen. PCE growth from 3.1% to 1.8%, real gross private domestic investment growth from 0.5%…