Category · 13 postsEconomics
All posts in the automatic “Economics” category, newest first.
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October 5, 2024
Vital Signs Updated
Two years ago I posted what I considered Vital Signs for the long term economic health of the US. It focused on total outgo vs.…
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August 22, 2023
Vital Signs
Having been facing some medical issues for the past couple of years, I am very familiar with the declaration, “I’m going to check your vitals.”…
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April 3, 2020
Now We Know Why!
Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
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November 4, 2018
Strong Economy? Give Me A Break!
I am a little puzzled that so many seem to be excited about and making voting decisions based on the current economy. Yes, unemployment is…
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February 12, 2018
Government Financial Data
My source for data on federal, state, and local government spending is almost always the Bureau of Economic Affairs National Income and Product Accounts. I…
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January 31, 2018
Good GDP, Bad GDP, Zero GDP
Imagine a simple rural farming community in which the people provide for their own and each other’s needs, trading among themselves and helping each other,…
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December 31, 2017
Happy New Year. It’s Infrastructure Time!
In the 1800’s, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, with little government oversight or involvement, spent his life building transportation and financial infrastructure that made him possibly the…
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May 8, 2017
The Decade of Our Discontent
The announcement a few days ago of real % increase in GDP for the first quarter of only 0.7% suggested it might be time to…
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October 23, 2016
Job Growth – New Low Predicted
Both sides of the political fence like to pick and choose data points to prove either that the jobs recovery during the Obama administration is…
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August 13, 2016
JFK and Changing Times
I was a senior at Vanderbilt on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. JFK had visited Nashville and spoken at Vanderbilt’s Dudley…
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June 25, 2016
KRM’s (Key Result Measures) and Improvement Plan for the USA (Revised 5/15/2015 Post)
Originally published 5/15/2015 · republished 2016
We are heavily entangled with, both supporting and depending on, two very large entities that we hope and pray are too large to fail. Unfortunately,…
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June 17, 2016
Math Matters…In Federal Financial Strategies
(Based on an 8/21/2011 post – Edited and data updated to 2015 in this post) August 21, 2011, I wrote a post making some fun…
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June 17, 2016
Historical Perspective and Context for US GDP Growth
GDP, the total value of goods and services produced within the country in a given time interval and the key measure of national economic health,…
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