Category Archives: Economic Growth

Will Another $50 Billion Stimulus Kick-Start Our Economy?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: September 6, 2010
Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs.  It’s at the top of all the headlines this week.  It’s the number one story and it’s being debated coast-to-coast.  President Obama is proposing another $50 Billion stimulus package for roads, runways, and railways to boost our economy - in other words – to create jobs by building our transportation infrastructure.  The president [...]
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High Unemployment, Empty Storefronts, For Sale Signs – When Will We Recover?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: August 9, 2010
Driving around town the signs are obvious.  “For Sale” signs that sit for months on poorly kept lawns.  Empty storefronts with empty parking lots that painfully remind us of a few years ago when times seemed better.  Plus, we hear about high unemployment all the time – 9.5% nationally, 14.2% in Nevada, 13.2% in Michigan, and 12.3% in California [...]
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Why Do Higher Tax Rates Often Lead to Lower Tax Revenues?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: August 2, 2010
It’s really counter-intuitive.  But, raising tax rates, leads to lower tax revenues for the government and lower economic growth for the economy.  Well-known economist Arthur Laffer reminds readers of this fact in an article in The Wall Street Journal this week.  The article includes lots of data for the skeptics too.  If you get a [...]
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Should Jobless Benefits Be Extended for the Eighth Time?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: July 19, 2010
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal this week discusses the proposal to extend jobless benefits for the eighth time since the recession started.  This extension would mean the unemployed can collect benefits for up to 99 weeks, nearly two years.  Is this a good idea from an economics point of view?  Is this compassion?  Or, are [...]
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Is Wealth Redistribution the Best Way to Get Excellent Health Care?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: July 12, 2010
Dr. Berwick, the new interim apppointment to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is in the news a lot lately over his remark about “… any health-care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less [...]
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Vagueness Impedes Economic Growth – Why?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: July 1, 2010
Writing in The Wall Street Journal this week, Daniel Henninger suggests a “void-for-vagueness doctrine” for Congress.  What does he mean by “vagueness?”  And, why is this suggestion so very important for economic growth?  Let’s talk about it now. The impetus for The Wall Street Journal column was the recent Supreme Court decision that found that the [...]
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