Speaking of spending more and not getting more, Mark Thoma points to this Wall Street Journal article discussing health care spending as a percentage of GDP in the 34 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Rare is…
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its data on gross domestic product by state for 2012. The good news is that no state experienced a recession last year except for Connecticut, and that recession was tiny, –0.1%. The bad…
Doug Wiken revs up my spreadsheet with his response to a new Time article that challenges the Republican mantra that regulation kills economic growth. Reporter Stephen Gandel compares economic growth over the last five years with the World Bank's rankings…
Paraphrasing Black Elk: How can businesses grow fat while schools go lean? Governor Dennis Daugaard is pleased to see South Dakota's Gross Domestic Product rose 4.28% in 2010. If we factor in inflation, we find South Dakota never saw a…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis just released its data on gross domestic product by metropolitan area for 2009. In the year that marked the official end of the recession, 222 of the 366 metro areas surveyed still saw their straight…