A post like this really shouldn't be necessary, but part of the right wing canard that Obama has been a profligate spender is based on spending as a percentage of GDP. It looks like this - Graph 1.

Some commentors to the previous posts have rightly concluded that I consider spending under Obama in the context of historical trends. In fact, if you don't consider historical trends, you are ...

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.8% in Q3 2024, according to the second estimate. he latest estimate is in line with the forecasted 2.8% growth and is below the Q2 2024 GDP ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

This morning’s release of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the standard measure of a nation’s economic activity – contains an important warning that equity market investors would do well by heeding. The ...

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