What’s Holding Back the US Economy?
The headline figures say that real gross domestic (GDP) product grew at an annualized rate of 2.8% in the fourth quarter of 2011 (October through December). This is good news. ...
Salvatore Babones
When Does a Recession Become a Depression?
The US economy officially went into recession in December 2007. The recession supposedly lasted eighteen months. By July 2009 the economy was growing again. Well, at least the Plutonomy was...
America’s Incredible Shrinking Government
We hear all the time about America’s bloated federal government and how it’s grown like a kind of bureaucratic kudzu to smoother and strangle our otherwise dynamic economy. Now that...
The Realonomy Explained
In 2005 Citigroup stock analysts Ajay Capur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh had an incredible insight. Once upon a time GDP growth meant that the whole economy improved. But in...