…which is subject to the big secular thing: growth was faster pre-Reagan, and Dems were in power pre-Reagan, so the numbers just represent that secular decline (the great innovation stagnation?),…

…crept up a bit; and into higher categories it’s moved up a lot.  We recognize this as stagnation in the bottom half and growing inequality in the top half, skewed…

…be the impact of rising real oil prices on growth in the advanced countries of Europe, Japan and North America. Will this be the driving force behind the Great Stagnation?…

…know, to the way banks were during that long postwar period of economic stagnation caused by the nationalized banking system we had back then, until de-nationalization returned the industry to…

…of Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation). I can think of a dozen different explanations, interpretations, and rhetorical riffs off of this three-decade trend. While most have a perjorative and pessimistic…

…message of middle-class stagnation (“It’s the economy, stupid”) was dependent on how inflation was measured, that conservatives would soon attack the official Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation data. The issue…

…but have trended sharply upward during the Great Stagnation period. Profit/GDP growth was unusually poor from 1980 through 1986. Then from late 2001 through early 2006 it exhibited the greatest…

…and abetted by deregulation, is a direct manifestation of the asset misallocation that, in my view, is the real cause of The Great Stagnation. A look at the oil price…

…the rub. Romney doesn’t recognize the damage from the wealthier among us continuing to get even wealthier while the vast majority suffers stagnation and decline: as the concentration of income…

by Mike Kimel A Random Observation About the 1970s… and the 1980s People often point to the stagnation of the 1970s, and the Reagan administration that followed, as evidence that…