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Small Business Manufacturing Comeback
The PayNet Manufacturing Index measures investment activity from America’s small manufacturers. According to the chart below, there is reason to be optimistic. The industry has managed to re-invent...
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The Current Economic Expansion
Courtesy of Avondale Asset Management is an article that challenges many assumptions of the US economy. Specifically, Scott Krisiloff gives some historical context to the current economic expansion. Of...
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Household Debt in OECD Countries
I love today’s chart from the Economist. Th country’s are ranked in descending order from the highest current household debt to the lowest. It gets really interesting when you start comparing today’s...
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TARP Repayment Status (Part I)
Using data from propublica.org, I conducted some analysis on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), born from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. I am going to analyze the program in 3 parts....
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TARP Repayment Status (Part II) – Incentive Problems
It has been a while since Part I of this series last month. In this edition, I wanted to focus on the return taxpayers are getting from TARP. As the graph shows, the vast majority of large banks who...
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Income Inequality
The New York TImes’ Economix blog had a fascinating look at income inequality in the US since the 1920s. Not much additional commentary needed for this graphic, but this quote drives the point home a...
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Real Income Trends in America
The NYT’s Economix blog comes through with another excellent look at income in the US. Most immediate to me was the stall hit right around the 2000 tech bubble. While the overall economy recovered, it...
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New Tax Reform Proposal
Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced a new tax reform proposal. Here is a video link to Senator Lee’s unveiling of the proposal at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The idea is to simplify...
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Obamacare and Part-Time Employment
The Economic Policy Institute takes a look at how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has affected part-time employment in the United States. It is fun to see a data-based study on a political topic...
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Effects of Austerity
Quartz’s Matt Philips, via Twitter, with a simple chart explaining the failure of European austerity.
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