Real Problems: Economic Growth
Political junkies love to talk about demographics. It’s always fun to speculate about the future. One common train of thought is that younger voters are typically more left leaning, hence […]
Tag Archives: Economic Growth
Climbing Out of the Fiscal Hole
The cover story for this week’s Economist deals with America’s fiscal hole. For the most part The Economist is dead right about this issue. Americans seem unwilling to pay higher […]
economic growth: the past fifty years
The table below is a great example of how much wealthier Americans are today compared to 50 years ago. Some of the economic malaise that’s gripping the nation today is […]
Raise the Gas Taxes
Most economists are not huge fans of raising income taxes. There are plenty of reasons; the biggest being is that it hurts economic growth. Tax policy has always been one […]
