Showing posts with label GDP 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GDP 2014. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Alan Greenspan is expecting mediocre GDP in 4Q, says housing and investment must recover to fix it

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Quoted here at Bloomberg: Greenspan said the economy won’t fully recover until American companies invest more in productive assets an...

Norway whacks GDP projection by over 50% amidst plunging oil prices

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Seen here : According to Statistics Norway, lower investment in the oil sector, Norway's primary growth engine, will likely slow...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Dr. Copper has been trading below $3 since before Thanksgiving

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Except for a brief ten day period in March, copper hasn't been this low this long since the stock market low in 2009. Combined with ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

If Obama had wanted to "rescue" the economy in 2009, he should have ramped-up the wars as he's doing now

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If Obama had really wanted to rescue the economy in 2009, he would have ramped up dramatically the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas: The world is experiencing the benefits of Western liberty like never before

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The Nativity at Night c. 1490 Freedom from want, loneliness, ignorance, danger, disease, discomfort and drudgery. From Richard R...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Zero Hedge gets ObamaCare spending all wrong, again

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The latest screed is here , claiming that healthcare spending is "the reason" behind the surge in Q3 GDP. From the BEA here ...

To date current dollar GDP under Obama is running 9.6% behind Bush every year

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Bush nominal GDP increased 43% over his term. To date nominal GDP under Obama is up less than 20%. Bush nomin...

Total market cap to 3Q2014 GDP ratio falls slightly on third revision . . .

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. . . to 1.415 from 1.419. The ratio was 0.74 at the end of 2008, indicating that the stock market was 91.2% more expensive at the e...

Third and final revision of 3Q2014 GDP surges to 5.0% on personal consumption and investment revisions

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Personal consumption added 2.21 points to today's revision of 3Q2014 GDP at 5.0% while government consumption added 0.80 points. TOG...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says Britain's George Osborne is full of fiscal baloney

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George Osborne is in today's Wall Street Journal here , bragging about Britain's fiscal discipline, among other things: "...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Stupid things heard on the Steve Gruber Show radio program last week

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Both the AM drive-time host, Steve Gruber, a libertarian for whom every opponent is taken as a challenge to his manhood, and his weekly ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Obama's war on growth: Per capita measure shows GDP didn't recover to 2007 level until 3Q2013

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So says Ironman, here : "Going by this measure we see that it wasn't until the third quarter of 2013 that the U.S. economy ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

How massive government debt remains the biggest impediment to growth

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Nominal GDP increased $604.9 billion dollars in 2013. The interest payment on the debt for fiscal 2013 was $415.7 billion,...

NY Times laments "tax uncertainty" over breaks which expired almost a year ago

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As seen at Amazon This is like lamenting that the Bush tax cuts became permanent two years ago. The only uncertainty is for liberals w...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Birth rate in 2013 reaches new all time low under Obama

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The birth rate per 1000 women in 2006 and 2007 had been 14.3, but in 2011 it fell to 12.7 and then to 12.6 in 2012. Things have gotten...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Average GDP report under Obama after 23 quarters

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1.8% With 9 quarters to go, Obama will have to have an astounding economic performance going forward to overcome the 2.1% average re...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Total market cap/3QGDP2014 2nd estimate = 1.419

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The ratio is effectively unchanged since the first estimate of third quarter GDP, falling from 1.421 to 1.419. $24.9126 trillion marke...

3Q2014 GDP revised up to 3.9% on surge in net exports (refined petroleum) and government spending (war on ISIS)

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Today's second estimate of 3Q2014 real GDP surprised to the upside, rising to 3.9% from 3.5%. Consensus estimates had GDP declining to...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Told ya: Exports decline 1.5% in September, imports at record levels, signaling GDP of 3.5% will be revised lower

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And to think just five days ago our masters of deception had no idea this was coming. As usual, this was unexpected. Reported here : ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Why this stock market may have another 20% left in it

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Simply stated, the market has another 20% in it because it hasn't yet reached the extremes of valuation which we witnessed in 1999. Th...