TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

No ads, no remuneration. Die Gedanken sind wirklich frei. The tyrant "has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles."

GDP actually DROPPED in the report out today for 3Q2017

Once again in the dead of night Senate Republicans pass tax reform for multinational corporations

American business abandoned America starting in 2000, investing gargantuan sums abroad instead of here at home

Sum Ting Wong: Low top marginal tax rates since 1986 have NOT delivered

Jimmy P has it right: Tax cuts never jazzed core Trump voters the way immigration restriction and The Wall did

Presidents' first nine months of current dollar GDP compared, including LBJ

Today's second estimate of GDP for 3Q2017 doesn't give Trump much of a bump in the rankings

It's hard to escape the conclusion that US GDP has been highly dependent on fertility

If economic growth under Trump feels like it was under Bill Clinton, that's because it is: Trump so far ranks 6th best out of 11 starts

How to tax the rich and only the rich as originally intended in 1913, and solve a lot of problems

Hoorah for CNBC's Jake Novak, who says the real issue in need of reform is spending

Percentage of GDP spent by government at all levels in the US 1898-2016

Virginia's Dave Brat caves to Conservatism Inc, will vote for tax cuts without spending cuts

Now if we could just get some strong men in The White House

Meanwhile, we get "broken window fallacy" nonsense from The New York Times about Hurricane Harvey

If anyone's lying about GDP, it's Rush Limbaugh

Trump's first six months of current dollar GDP aren't awful, but that's about it

With Bush and Obama, America has entered a new era of stupid, paying in excess of $1 for every extra dollar of GDP

The Reagan GDP miracle is a complete myth: It was all government spending (on defense)

The much maligned Jimmy Carter is the hero of the post-war for paying the least for GDP