Corporate Sector Comes Alive
The corporate sector has received too little attention from financial media of late. Individual firms, of course, continue to attract media interest, especially if a scandal develops, but few these […]
Tag Archives: economic growth
Tax Reform
Tax matters have truly moved to center stage. Republicans have advanced their proposals. Though they differ from Trump’s campaign promises and from the sketch offered by the White House earlier […]
The German Swindle
Trump, for all his rhetorical clumsiness and intellectual limitations, still sometimes makes a valid point. He does when he says that Germany is “very bad on trade.” However much Berlin […]
Reading Keynes Correctly
Had Barack Obama read his Keynes thoroughly, the American economy would look stronger today. He did embrace some of what Keynes said. His turn to public works spending to counter […]
Trump Tax-Reform Proposals
As promised last week, this week’s blog offers a link to a more complete discussion of the White House’s tax reform/cut proposals, this one published in The National Interest. I […]
Household Finances Still Look Good
If the U.S. economy develops trouble any time soon, it will occur somewhere other than the household sector. American consumers, quite contrary to their sometimes-profligate behavior in the past, have […]
First Good News in a While
December has brought the first good news on capital spending in a long while. The Census Bureau reported that non-defense capital goods orders in October rose a remarkably robust 14.5 […]
Money and Inflation
Questions of inflation have these days come up more frequently in investment conversations. The issue and the rate of price change have remained quiescent for so long now that many […]
A Threat to Growth, Now and Over the Long Haul
Capital spending continues to weaken. All indicators, whatever the source, show that business and industry remain reluctant to spend on new structures, new equipment, even new systems and computing power. […]
U.S. Trade Improves But Not for Long
The country’s trade balance has improved so far this year. According to the Commerce Department, the balance of U.S. exports over imports showed a deficit of some $200 billion between […]
Thirty Tomorrows 