Growth Mail Archive
4-30-24: Slower GDP Growth Surprised Analysts (But Not Us)
by Gary Alexander April 30, 2024 At the beginning of this month (in “Is the U.S. Economy Really Growing at 3.4%?” Growth Mail, April 2, 2024), I made the case that the [...]
4-23-24: Time for Some Spring (Tech Stock?) House Cleaning?
by Gary Alexander April 23, 2024 Sunset Monday night marked the start of Passover, the most sacred date on the spring Jewish calendar, but the celebration doesn’t end tonight. It will continue [...]
4-16-24: How to Create a Roaring (2nd Half of the) Twenties
by Gary Alexander April 16, 2024 Last week, I wrote about why tax increases don’t usually raise tax receipts. This week, I’ll show how tax rate cuts always raise tax receipts, especially [...]
4-9-24: Why Raising Tax Rates Does NOT Raise More Tax Dollars
by Gary Alexander April 9, 2024 The annual IRS tax deadline is on us, matching the historic date of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the death of Lincoln, so [...]
4-2-24: Is the Economy Really Growing at a Robust 3.4%?
by Gary Alexander April 2, 2024 In the last business day of the quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) told us that the U.S. economy grew by a robust 3.4% (annual [...]
3-26-24: Economics Isn’t Rocket Science (It’s Harder than That)
by Gary Alexander March 26, 2024 Dad was a rocket scientist. That was painfully obvious when he moved our family from peaceful Seattle to politically charged Huntsville, Alabama, in the summer of [...]
3-19-24: March Madness: Dow 5k Fears (2009) & Bloated Budgets Begin (1964)
by Gary Alexander March 19, 2024 Spring begins on the earliest possible date today, March 19. Living way up north, near Canada, flowers are blooming outside my window today, and I’m happy [...]
3-12-24: Growth Stocks Keep Trouncing Value (and Global) Stocks
by Gary Alexander March 12, 2024 This column is called “Growth Mail,” so I tend to focus on economic growth, but once or twice a year I also crow about the continued [...]
3-5-24: The U.S. Growth Machine Will Likely Rescue the World (Again)
by Gary Alexander March 5, 2024 On March 4, 1789, 235 years ago yesterday, George Washington was sworn in as America’s first President and the first session of the U.S. Congress was [...]
2-27-24: Are We in Market Bubble Territory Yet?
by Gary Alexander February 27, 2024 Something remarkable happened last Thursday, on what we used to celebrate as Washington’s Birthday. As the day dawned in Tokyo, the Nikkei stock index rose 2.2% [...]
2-21-24: Presidents’ Day Reality: Big Promises, Few Results
by Gary Alexander February 21, 2024 In my weekly radio program on music history, I offered a song for each special day last week, starting with the Chinese New Year (February10), then [...]
2-13-24: Rapid U.S. GDP Growth is Disputed by Two Other Measures
by Gary Alexander February 13, 2024 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by a healthy 3.13% (in real terms) in 2023, but a couple of more comprehensive measures call this number into question. [...]