Is Brexit a Risk to US Growth?

mike smitka I made a short presentation as a component of board education for a local bank. The president was curious about Brexit, so I use...

4% Growth?! – Trump channels Bush's 2015 pipe dream

mike smitka Just a quick cross-reference to a February 2015 post on this topic, " Promises versus Deliverables: Jeb Bush and 4% Growth ...

Thank you Baby Boomers: The new norm is 60,000 jobs

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University A simple projection from pre-Great-Recession levels suggests we need 150,000 new jobs ...

Radio Show: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Mike Smitka Professor of Economics, Washington and Lee University WREL Lexington (VA) is changing its format, so today is my last regular ra...

US Inflation

Here are 4 graphs that give an overview of inflation from the perspective of both producers and consumers. Data are percent change from the ...

Waiting for the stars to align: Japan's Consumption Tax increase

Japan, as does much of the world, has long-run fiscal challenges. Its population aged faster than anticipated. No mechanism was put in place...

Interest rates, inflation and growth

I go through US data periodically for a weekly radio show on W3Z - WREL in Lexington, Virginia. Unfortunately they don't stream their lo...

How do you like your cone? – double-dip?

Part I Where will growth come from, as the stimulus money runs out? – though the construction portion will keep being shoveled out for month...