…apparently, have been put in a lockbox of some sort). Now, here’s how the deficit you typically hear about is computed: Total money in is $600b (income taxes) + $800b…

…of tax proposals (top marginal rate, estate tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax) that likely fall under the “making over $200,000k” rubric, adds them up, and finds that the “total…

…Total job losses so far in the Bush years: over 2 million. Total gains in the last six months, since the so-called recovery supposedly accelerated in the third quarter? Just…

…an enrollee’s total drug costs are $810 then total out-of-pocket expenses are exactly $810. If drug costs are less than that, the enrollee is paying more than she would without…

…large investments. Starting with Pennsylvania’s 1976 $100 million deal for Volkswagen, the report details 240 megadeals through May 2013. The total cumulative amount of the deals comes to $64 billion….

…headwinds using 2 equations for productivity. Productivity = National income / Total labor hours We can see that if national income increases, then productivity will increase. But in order for…

…evidence that he was just totally full of it. In 1985 the border of the European unemployment problem was the Atlantic Ocean. The contrast between the UK and the US…

…rest of the country got to its widest level in history last year. The top 1% of earners in the U.S. pulled in 19.3% of total household income in 2012,…

…it’s in the cards. Here’s why. Graph 2 shows total capacity utilization (TCU) since 1967.   Graph 2 – Total Capacity Utilization The main trend has been down since the…

In Part 1, [here at AB] I looked at factors that tie closely with Total Capacity Utilization (TCU), and saw no reason to believe that TCU is about to surge….