…its predictive ability, then how many months of low consumer price growth do we need before we can question the Wanniski approach to inflation forecasting? Gold-mania is a theoretical flaw…

The National Retail Federation (NRF), citing tough comparisons, high energy costs and a slowing housing market, is forecasting retail spending to grow 4.7% in 2006, compared to 6.1% in 2005….

…you. For example, the Congressional Budget Office, in it’s August 2002 Budget and Economic Outlook — written before the 2003 tax cuts had even been proposed — expected $2.224 trillion…

…prowess are bordering on the absurd. After Chinese statisticians recently sharply revised up their estimate of economic output in 2004 to $1.93 trillion, some analysts said that in 35 years…

In this week’s issue The Economist wonders to what degree one country’s rate of inflation is no longer determined by local forces, and instead is determined by global economic forces:…

…issue, I consulted the webpage of Aswath Damodaran to find his excel file labeled “Implied Equity Risk Premiums – United States”. The purpose of Damodaran’s analysis of stock market data…

…Bush took office to make his claim. Hassett continues with this claim about real GDP: The gap is so small because economic growth surprised on the upside, delivering more revenue…

…and Wall Street economists are saying. The story continues with lots of quotes from independent economists as well as noting that the CEA is now forecasting 175 thousand new jobs…

…2042 assume that economic growth will slow as baby boomers leave the work force. The actuaries predict that economic growth, which averaged 3.4 percent per year over the last 75…

Louis Woodhall writes in The Real Social Security Crisis is Economic Growth: The Trustees of the Social Security Administration assume (in their “Intermediate” case”) that over the next 75 years,…