Tag: GDP

It’s The Economy Stupid; Or are the Economists Stupid?

sensiblemajority, March 7, 2024July 30, 2024

They say a broken clock is right twice a day and after a year can boast of a long string of successes. Sooner or later the economic pundits are going to be right.

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The Deficit: AAK STATISTICS!

sensiblemajority, January 17, 2024September 28, 2024

Right now, the total deficit sits at 34 trillion dollars. It would take 123% of annual gross domestic product to pay it off.

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Economists Predict a Prosperous 2025 – Should We Be Worried?

sensiblemajority, January 14, 2024September 28, 2024

2023, 65% of economists according to Goldman Sachs predicted that there would be a recession within the calendar year. The results are in.

James Madison

May 26, 2024

Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the poetry of America’s aspirations, Madison wrote the prose.

May 1, 2024

The election of 1800 pitted the incumbent John Adams against Thomas Jefferson. The early founders abhorred the idea of political parties...

April 3, 2024

Alexander Hamilton is the only one of the founders who did not survive to an old age. Many lived into their 60s and beyond.

March 31, 2024

John Jay has historically been relegated to the second tier of the Founding Fathers. Yet he was instrumental in getting New York to ratify the Constitution. Had either Virginia or New York failed to ratify the Constitution it is unlikely that the young nation would have survived. He successfully negotiated...