It’s the Growth, Stupid

Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit is one of my favorite economics bloggers. He does not post often, but when he does he produces some real gems.  His work includes illuminating graphs that supports his clear analysis. While I have agonized over the terrible choice...

The Wall of Worry

an excellent post from Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit, The Bad news is why I am optimistic Grannis is one of my favorite economics bloggers- and one of the few that seems to combine a sense of harsh reality with a sense of optimism. He is strongly data driven...

Weeding the Economy

Economist John Cochrane wrote a 10,000 word essay, Economic Growth.  Scott Grannis blogged some excerpts here:  a few of them: Our economy is like a garden, but the garden is choked with weeds. Rather than look for some great new fertilizer to throw on it, why don’t...

A Culture of Non Productivity

From Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit,  The Problem is The Lack of Productivity That it has not grown faster despite extremely low interest rates and very accommodative Fed policy is not evidence of the failure of monetary policy or the need for yet more...

Occam’s Economy

from Scott Grannis at his blog, The California Beach Pundit, The $3 trillion cost of bad policies excerpt: The federal government borrowed $7.8 trillion over the course of the past seven years and handed most of the proceeds out in the form of various transfer...