by Henry Oliner | May 21, 2020 | Business, Economy
The sharp rebound of the stock market has been as surprising as the sharp selloff in March. Unemployment has reached levels unseen since the Great Depression of 1929; production has dropped 40% and M2 money creation is up 25%, all in the space of only a few months....
by Henry Oliner | Jan 4, 2018 | Economics
Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit handicaps the Trump tax cut in Predictions for 2018: If 2018 is going to be about just one thing, it will be whether boosting the after-tax rewards to business investment results in a stronger economy. Beginning in 2009, Obama and...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 16, 2016 | Democrats, Economics
from the editors of The National Review, Hilary’s Disastrous Economic Plan But it is a statement of Mrs. Clinton’s priorities, which are giving handouts to her corporate allies, strengthening the whip hand of politicians over health care, bribing the Sanders-Warren...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 13, 2016 | Democrats, Economics
from the editors of The National Review, Hilary’s Disastrous Economic Plan It is economically illiterate, but Mrs. Clinton sincerely believes it, arguing that, in the same vein, raising the federal minimum wage would actually help U.S. employers by...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 12, 2016 | Business, Economics
from The Clinton Plan’s Growth Deficit by John Cochrane in The Wall Street Journal America’s foremost economic problem is sclerotic growth. If the economy continues to expand at only 1% to 2% a year, instead of the historical 3% to 4%, then current economic and...
