Bill Gates Correlates High Taxes with High GDP

Recently Bill Gates questioned the supply-side, tax-cut economic theory by bringing up that the American period with the highest GDP growth in recent memory, the 60s, also had one of the highest marginal tax rates in recent memory, at 90% (for most of the decade anyway). He was careful not to say that the high […]

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China Overtakes US as World’s Largest Economy?

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China has just overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy. Of course, this is not in terms of overall GDP, yet. It’s in terms of purchasing power. As an article in Forbes explains: The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt […]

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