…world more peaceful, as nations linked by a shared economic fate wouldn’t dare wage war against one another. The world would become more democratic, too, as economic liberalization would lead…

…that while a second Biden presidency would see cooling inflation and continued economic growth of 2.1%, a Trump presidency would be an economic disaster. Trump has promised to slash taxes…

…administration and exposes the fragility and speculative nature of the global economic system it disrupted. 5 Key Bullet Points: Jared Kushner reportedly chose Trump’s economic adviser by browsing Amazon book…

…Today The plastics industry faces a challenging economic landscape as the latest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economic outlook reveals that while global growth proved more resilient than expected in…

…prescription for slower, not faster economic growth. (Try reconciling the data with Republican, libertarian, or Austrian economic theory.) Now… I do not believe that higher taxes, in and of themselves,…

…depreciation program began in October 1933, even though all economic historians agree in began in mid-April 1933, when the exchange rate for the dollar began declining (against gold and against…

…this type of economic analysis is just “hope [for booming economic growth] masquerading as theory.” The facts are different. Empirical studies show decisively that increasing inequality is extraordinarily harmful to…

…very bad economic theory, is the notion that there was some sort of big economic boom at the end of World War 2. Case in point: Tyler Cowen links to…

by Mike Kimel This post appeared in the Presimetrics blog. Presidents, the Tax Burden and Corruption – Explaining Economic Growth One of the topics we cover in Presimetrics is the…

…always prevents war is an equally great illusion.” Economic rationality is an assumption. And it’s an assumption that is only approximately correct if you have a large set of economic…