Hey Mark,
Just found your site while looking for productivity tools. I like the govt. debt charts (I like the charts but not the debt!), and notice something interesting.
Notice in 1980 when Reagan came into office how the govt. spending as percentage of GDP goes up. Then it goes down when Clinton was President and up again when Bush entered office.
So much for being conservative - fiscally, anyway! It's ironic that Republicans claim the mantle of responsible spending when what they have actually done is anything but.
Mark Wieczorek
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Government Spending as % of GDP
Peter March 11th, 2009 9:47am
Peter: Yeah that is interesting. Investigating exactly that is what got me to MARKTAW's site. I do have two comments:
1. annual debt (or annual anything, actually) will tend to increase any time GDP growth slows, as in the "double-dip" recession that occurred around the start of the Reagan administration.
2. Perhaps irrelevantly, I prefer to avoid mixing politics with my economics.
MARK: This is a nice site. I like the gold color on your graphs of gold data. Nice touch.
1. annual debt (or annual anything, actually) will tend to increase any time GDP growth slows, as in the "double-dip" recession that occurred around the start of the Reagan administration.
2. Perhaps irrelevantly, I prefer to avoid mixing politics with my economics.
MARK: This is a nice site. I like the gold color on your graphs of gold data. Nice touch.
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