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Winnipeg Free Press By: Jake Fuss and Alex Whalen Posted: Save to Read Later THIS week’s federal budget, the first since the pandemic began, is expected to include details about a massive stimulus package that will cost between $70 billion to $100 billion over the next three years. And yet, if Canada’s past experience with stimulus measures is any guide, this latest effort will not “kick-start”...

Print this article European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde addresses an event to launch the private finance agenda of the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference in London, England, February 27, 2020. (Tolga Akmen/Pool via Reuters) I felt spoiled for choice when it came to a topic with which to preface this week’s Capital Letter. Dogecoin went quite a long way toward the moon, the U.N.’s secretary-general has pushed for a “solidarity” or wealth tax,...

Did the Fed Stop Reporting the Money Supply (M2)? Why Inflation is Coming Back  Share   Share Jay Powell, Fed Chairman Reports are circulating that the Federal Reserve has given up on reporting the money supply because it’s a misleading guide to economic growth and price inflation. The broad-based M2 has been growing at double-digit-percentage rates for several years — M2 is up by 25% in the past year — yet price inflation (Consumer Price Index) is still hobbling along at 2% a year. La...

Chart 2: Wealthy Taxpayers Rely Less on Wage and Salary Income Than Any Other Income Class Chart 3: Changes In Tax Rates Have Little Effect on Revenues Chart 4: Rich Pay More Following 1920s Tax Cuts Chart 5: Rich Paid More Under 1960s Kennedy Tax Cuts Chart 6: Reagan Tax Cuts Generated 31% More Tax Revenue From the Wealthy Chart 7: Higher Tax Rates, Lower Revenue Introduction One of the most important fiscal policy debates developing in this election involves the question of whether changes in...

Article content There are three things that I think most pundits are missing in their prognosis for the economy and they are all basic laws of economics. Let’s start with the law of diminishing returns, as this applies to saturated expenditures of big-ticket durable goods. This is also related to the law of diminishing marginal utility, which posits that, all else being equal, as consumption increases, the marginal utility derived from each additional unit declines. We appear to have hit that...

Pulling up the inflation anchor Feb 25,2021 - Last updated at Feb 25,2021 CAMBRIDGE — Five decades ago, the United States’ biggest macroeconomic problem was high inflation, which averaged more than 6% in the 1970s and rose to as high as 10% by the end of the decade. Then came US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and reappointed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Volcker famously broke the back of inflation through a policy of h...

Calculating GDP is usually relatively uncomplicated. The total amount of household consumption of goods and services is summed with corporate investments, government disbursals, and total nationwide exports and imports during a given period. By knowing how the economy has behaved previously and the trajectory of primary economic variables such as interest and foreign exchange rates, the performance of principal trading partners, and current prices of exports, among other factors, it is possible...

Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: Biden’s economic plan, Yellen’s debt dilemma, and deficits in a zero-interest-rate world. CARES Act Redux We ran an editorial this morning on Biden’s stimulus plan, which looks more like a structural economic-reform package than an emergency-spending bill. The proposal ...

Tail risks But it is still worth keeping an eye on N 1975 Adam Fergusson, a journalist on the Times, published a book called “When Money Dies”. A history of hyperinflation in Germany in the early 1920s, it was written with an eye to what was going on in the then-present day. Inflation in Britain was not at the prices-soaring-day-by-day levels seen in the Weimar Republic. But in 1975 it reached an unprecedented 24%—grim enough for Fergusson’s warning that the experience of inflation was...

Both mommy and daddy. everyone talks about the american family shattering but will not face what is happening to the forces for fear of again, political correctness. before we start throwing money at ways to support the feminist idea, stop the hypocrisy and see the facts. something is drastically wrong and men and women are the irrational claims of angry feminists. if the subject of women in combat cant be given an open hearing, its left to journalist to do their homework and discuss it honestly...