…to aggregate compensation in the 1990’s and 2000’s (roughly), according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Since 1987, State and Local governments have accounted for an average 13% of total…

…shift from leaded to unleaded gasoline roughly two decades earlier. Kevin Drum notes that James Q. Wilson ascribes about half of the total decline to lead exposure. The hypothesis makes…

The Federal Reserve released the Q4 2010 Flow of Funds Accounts for the US. On the household balance sheet, net worth (total assets minus total liabilities) was estimated at $56.8…

…hourly earnings figures for production and nonsupervisory workers, 80% of the total nonfarm payroll. The broader measure of total earnings is real hourly compensation (see Table A and get the…

…paid health insurance to wages after the Exchanges et al are fully in operation. This seems to rest on an argument from economic theory that has employers setting total compensation…

…partners. The chart illustrates the contribution to overall export growth from the Philippines six largest trading partners – together these countries account for roughly 50% of total exports. The contributions…

…capita for each expansion period, and the third looks at the total growth rate in real GDP per capita over the length of the expansion period. In each graph, recoveries…

…this forms part of one of the great misinformation campaigns of all time. The misinformation is rooted in what many consider to be plain common sense. It may seem like…

…American Enterprise Institute (AEI). There is no truth to that. Right or wrong I have come to my observations on the Fund on my own. I have written a total…

…rate. Some headline findings of the report are (bold font by yours truly): Total employment is projected to increase by 15.3 million, or 10.1 percent, during the 2008-18 period, the…