GDP on Townhall

• Fed Reports Taxes, Not Sequester, Drag on GDP Mon Jun 17
  Political Calculations
  Over 90 percent of the decline is directly attributable to the tax hikes that went into effect in 2013, including the Social Security payroll tax hike, the various Obamacare tax hikes and President Obama's desired tax hikes upon high income earners and investments that were part of the fiscal cliff tax deal at the beginning of the year, all of which applied at the federal government level. ... more
• Let's Talk About Sex: Why More Babies Means More Economic Growth Fri Jun 14
  Jerry Bowyer
• America's Vast Margin of Error Thu Jun 13
  Victor Davis Hanson
• The Social Cost of Carbon – Another Example of Data Manipulation Thu Jun 13
  Michael Schaus
  President Barack Obama approved an increase in the so-called “social cost of carbon” calculation to $38 a metric ton. This number is used by government bureaucrats to weigh the cost and benefit of proposed projects, regulations and environmental laws; all without the hassle of actually understanding economics ... more
• Government Spending Up, Private GDP Down Mon May 6
  Chris Edwards
  Government spending certainly helps the government-dependent parts of the U.S. economy. But most Americans live in the private economy, and so they might like to know how government budget actions affect the economy that they live in. ... more
• Obamacare, Monster, Turns on its Creator Wed May 1
  Ransom Notes Radio
  Congressional Democrats, occasional political pundits and even (Gasp!) the media might be figuring out that Obamacare is – in fact – a monster. James Pethokoukis, with AEI, also joined the program to discuss GDP and what the economy can expect moving forward. ... more
• Does GDP Growth Predict The Direction Of Stocks? Tue Apr 23
  Jerry Bowyer
  Anticipating the future is very difficult, and investors are always guessing and always updating their guesses, but almost never getting their forecasts of the future exactly right. Investors tend to anticipate future changes in GDP growth, but inexactly. ... more
• Brussels Threatens Spain With Fines of 0.1% of GDP Thu Apr 11
  Mike Shedlock
  Never mind that Spanish unemployment is 26.6% and youth unemployment exceeds 55%. The nannycrats wants Spain to hike taxes even more to make up for budget shortfalls. ... more
• Taking the Over for GDP in 2013Q1 Mon Apr 8
  Political Calculations
  With the GDP data finalized for the time being, we can now project forward to anticipate what real growth the U.S. economy can expect in the first quarter of 2013 ... more
• China first-quarter GDP likely nudged higher, recovery on track Wed Apr 3
  Reuters News
• Jobless claims up, fourth-quarter GDP revised up Thu Mar 28
  Reuters News
• UK GDP to grow less in 2013, '14 than forecast in December: Osborne Tue Mar 19
  Reuters News
• In Which We Explain How Cuts in R&D Spending Can Affect GDP to President Obama Mon Mar 18
  Political Calculations
  Cuts in the U.S. government's R&D expenditures will have much less of an impact upon the U.S. economy than cuts in corporate R&D investments, thanks to the government's bizarre strategy of "investing" in wasteful, politically-driven, high-risk, low-return R&D efforts. ... more
• Report: Frickin’ Fracking Could Ruin Everything for Leftist Activists Fri Feb 15
  John Ransom
  A new report from the UK research team at Price Waterhouse and Cooper confirms what we knew all along: We’re right and they’re wrong. Really wrong; once-in-a-lifetime, disastrously wrong if grading on the scale the rest of us are subject to. Grading on the liberal scale, however, it’s just normal, everyday, run of the mill errors in judgment, math, worldview, physics and fluid mechanics that liberals deal with all the time. ... more
• Forward: Unemployment Jumps Up to 7.9 Percent Fri Feb 1
  Katie Pavlich
• Making Sense of Keynesian-Laced GDP Reports Fri Feb 1
  Daniel J. Mitchell
  Fighting against statism in Washington is a lot like trying to swim upstream. It seems that everything (how to measure spending cuts, how to estimate tax revenue, etc) is rigged to make your job harder. ... more
• Ten Reasons for Declining GDP Growth Over Time Fri Feb 1
  Mike Shedlock
  To compute "Real GDP" one has to adjust nominal GDP by a measure of inflation. Different measures of inflation provide different answers. ... more
• Wimping Out Thu Jan 31
  Jackie Gingrich Cushman
  The New York Times mobile app sent me a breaking news update Wednesday morning: "U.S. Economy Unexpectedly Contracted in Fourth Quarter." Based on high government third-quarter spending and government policies and politics occurring during the fourth quarter, the slowdown should come as no surprise. ... more
• White House blames Republican "brinkmanship" for GDP contraction Wed Jan 30
  Reuters News
• Economy Shrinks Due to Military Cuts Wed Jan 30
  Kevin Glass
• Obama's Real Cost: $19 Trillion in Missing GDP Sat Jan 26
  John Ransom
  Since it’s unrealistic to expect politicians to make meaningful cuts in government spending, we need to get back the $19 trillion in private GDP that politicians today are so happily squandering through myriad government schemes. ... more
• Taking the Under on GDP Sun Jan 20
  Political Calculations
  We had forecast that real GDP would be recorded at $13,602.8 billion in terms of constant 2005 U.S. dollars, and the BEA's third estimate came in at $13,652.6 billion - a difference of $49.8 billion, or within 0.04% of the BEA's last recorded figure. ... more
• Economic Freedom on the Wane Sat Jan 19
  Ed Feulner
  How would you say the U.S. compares to other nations? No need to guess. We can pinpoint it exactly by using an annual guide known as the Index of Economic Freedom. Top three, you think? Top five? Nope. Last year at this time came the news that the United States had dropped to 10th place. ... more
• Are We Becoming European? Fri Jan 4
  Mona Charen
  Following the fiscal cliff melodrama, Senator Richard Shelby appeared on television to declare that we are becoming European. "We're always wanting to spend and promise and spend and borrow but not cut. We've got to get real about this. We're headed down the road that Europe's already on." ... more
• Future Generations Wed Dec 5
  Walter E. Williams
  Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior of today's Americans. It would be seen as selfish, callous and ruthless only if it were actually articulated. Let's look at it. ... more

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