Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2026

US economic growth peaked during the Reagan administration because America is a debt-based economy and we turned our backs on the formula during it

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 The trend for the growth of the total universe of US debt, TCMDO or total credit market debt outstanding, rolled over after 1985, one year ...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Ronald Reagan's faith in the American people's better judgment about how to spend their own money was . . . misplaced

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"Well, our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big taxspenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know be...

In 1982 Ronald Reagan was really upset about the federal government spending $2 billion a day, in 2025 we spent $20 billion a day

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  "Our Government is spending money at a rate that is intolerable, if not incomprehensible. Almost $2 billion a day, $1,400,000 a minut...
Monday, May 4, 2026

The consequences of the Reagan Revolution: $11.1 trillion missing real GDP since 1Q1984

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 Real GDP in 1Q2026 reached $24.175 trillion. Had real GDP continued to grow at the pre-1984 rate to now, it would have been $35.273 trillio...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Ha, taxes coerce behavior whether you like it or not, so you'd better decide what behavior you want because you're going to get it good and hard either way

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  Tax Power Not Designed To Coerce Behavior  - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy ...  the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is a welcome nod to the fact that th...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Post-Reagan GDP underperformed the immediate post-war by over 26%, Trump-era GDP underperforms it by almost 32%

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Ronald Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump. The watershed tax changes throwing away the threat of high ordinar...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Ronald Reagan's goal of a 600-ship U.S. Navy made it to 594 in 1987, but in 2026 we can barely deploy 300 because of Bill Clinton, but Trumpty Dumpty never mentions that

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   After the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, Bill Clinton gutted the Navy. We went from 541 ships in 1992 to 336 by 1999. And now we can't ...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Ronald Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump

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  Ronald Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump.  Real GDP Compound Annual Growth Rates 1947-1984: 3.652%  1984-2...
Friday, March 13, 2026

That right there is a stagflation headline

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  Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1% Economic growth was much slower than expected in the ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

SPX return since August 2000 vs. Jan 1871-Jul 1982

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  Aug 2000-Jan 2026: 8.19% pa / 5.53% real Jan 1871-Jul 1982: 8.15% pa / 6.18% real Jul 1982-Aug 2000: 18.99% pa / 15.28% real 
Friday, February 20, 2026

GDP in 2025 would be double what it is had economic growth continued after 1984 at the 1929-1984 compound annual rate of 6.869%

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 Nominal GDP in 2025 would be $61.524 trillion instead of $30.778 trillion had economic growth continued at the 55-year 1929-1984 compound a...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

It's OK when I do it: Hypocritical Trump lauds $36 billion Japanese investment in U.S. oil and gas, one week ago bashed Reagan era $25 billion equivalent in U.S. automotive sector

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But Trump's sin could end up dwarfing Reagan's by 22 times.     Trump lauds Japan’s pledge to invest $36 billion in U.S. oil, gas an...
Friday, January 30, 2026

The wealth inequality of today's K-shaped economy goes back to the Reagan Revolution

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Wealth inequality and the ‘K-shaped’ economy are more striking than ever, data shows   They take vacations and buy luxury goods. You struggl...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Today's GDP report indicates Trump GDP since 2017 is undershooting post-war performance up to Reagan 3Q1984 by 25%

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  GDP since Reagan 3Q1984 (41 years) through the Trump present moment has grown at a compound annual rate 35% lower than for 3Q1947-3Q1984 (...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

In 2018 The Wall Street Journal was still defending China's admission into the WTO, today it pretends it wasn't part of that bipartisan folly

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 Then: "The U.S. properly worked for China's inclusion". Now: "An era of folly began in the new century. Leaders of both ...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Unbelievably rosy GDP report contained core pce inflation data at 2.9% countering previous rosy core cpi inflation report at 2.6% and indicating rising inflation

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 U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows   The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-e...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

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... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole yea...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

This article in liberal VOX is a great defense of the metric called Gross Domestic Product

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 The only number that really matters  ... GDP tells you how much resource-generating capacity you have by looking at how much you are doing ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Trump has attacked the Houthis, Iran, and is assembling an armada against Venezuela as we speak, but fantasy world dweller Scott Greer says the future of the GOP isn't about foreign policy

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The Old Guard Is Not the Right’s Future   ... Republicans are less likely now to back NATO and other international commitments. Republican...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

It is obvious to everyone except Republicans that the Reagan Revolution of tax cuts for the rich has failed to produce the economic growth America was accustomed to before he became president

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We had a few dozen billionaires in the Reagan era. Now we have hundreds. Growth of GDP, percent change, annual, rolled over after 1984, inau...