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Recent Posts
BEA Indicators
- Personal Income and Outlays, October 2024
- Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2024 (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits (Preliminary)
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- Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
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Category Archives: Government Policy
Tomorrow's Jobs Report Will be Weak: Bank Loans to Businesses Still Falling.
The latest business loans numbers show that bank loans to businesses are still falling. As I have written in recent posts here and here, large banks have systematically shut down their lending to small businesses over the past 2 months, … Continue reading
Posted in All, Economic Indicators, Government Policy, U.S. Economy
Tagged bank loans, banks, business loans, Economy, inflation, Jobs, Rutledge, small businesses, unemployment
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How Much of the Stimulus Money has Already Been Spent?
One of the (many) problems with using big increases in federal government spending as an economic stimulus tool is timing. You can’t appropriate and spend it fast enough to matter much during the downturn. Spending it years later, after the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Government Policy, U.S. Economy
Tagged bond, bond yield, budget deficits, Economic Crisis, GDP, Government Policy, inflation, interest rates, Jobs, Rutledge, tweets, twitter, unemployment
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