She really said it best. It’s not austerity, it’s following discipline that you should have been following all along. Hear it all here.
Category: eCOnomics
Healthcare Insurance Costs 2018
Two graphics below. The first was pieced together from an application to the Obamacare website for central Pennsylvania for a two person household, non-smoking, with low predicted use. The second is the results screen from entering the same criteria into the EHealthInsurance website. (click to enlarge (on some devices you may need to click and…
EcoFacts
The One Percenters – what it takes to be in the 1% in each state. Top 1 – 5 – 10% Who Pays Taxes? 45% of Americans pay no income taxes at all. Americans by quintile: The richest 20% (top quintile) of Americans pay more than 86% of income taxes The poorest two quintilles (lowest…
The Power of Brexit
Brexit has caused Europe to rethink things. Like Greece. Greece is $300 Billion in debt (just government debt) and their GDP is $195 Billion (2015). So Europe has cut them a break and just gave them another $9.5 Billion in aid. I say “gave” because everyone knows that it will never be repaid. But Europe…
Economics Progress
GDP going to Labor (workers) as opposed to going to capital: 1970: 68.8% 2013: 60.7% Number of Manufacturing Jobs in US: 1979: 19,300,000 2015: 12,300,000 Population of US: 1979: 225,000,000 2015: 321,000,000 Before 2000 – Americans were getting richer: lower and middle classes were shrinking percentage of families making $100k+ was growing (inflation adjusted) After 2000 Americans were…