Growth Mail Archive
6-4-24: America’s New D-Day: The Day Debt Doubled Growth
by Gary Alexander June 4, 2024 This week we celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, by honoring those few remaining heroes that survived that harrowing day on the beaches [...]
5-29-24: Remembering Our Dark Summers 50 and 100 Years Ago
by Gary Alexander May 29, 2024 Memorial Day was first observed on May 30, 1868, as Decoration Day, to honor 620,000 lost Civil War soldiers who died in battle or in related [...]
5-21-24: It’s May – The Month for Marketing Marxism
by Gary Alexander May 21, 2024 A decade ago (May 6, 2014), I wrote a column here, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx…Now, Get Lost,” based on the dual birthdays of the original brainiac [...]
5-14-24: It’s Time for Trade-Offs More Than Solutions
by Gary Alexander May 14, 2024 It’s a tough pill to swallow in the middle of an election year, but we need a lot fewer grand solutions to life’s big challenges and [...]
5-7-24: Why the U.S. is an Economic and Investment Oasis – And Likely Will Remain So
by Gary Alexander May 7, 2024 As we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June and the beginning of the end for the Axis powers in World War II, today marks [...]
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 [...]