President Trump mentioned a 15% annual real GDP growth target. Progrowth Policy Lower interest rates and accommodative monetary policy to boost borrowing, investment, and consumption. Warsh’s perceived willingness to tolerate stronger growth without quick tightening. Complementary policies like tax cuts, deregulation, and energy production (drill baby drill) that Trump has long advocated. Achieving sustained 15% …
The latest GDPNow USA GPD estimate is 5.3 percent — January 14, 2026. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday he expected first quarter GDP growth in the United States would exceed 5% in the first quarter of 2026, adding that its interest rates were too high and were holding back stronger growth. The …
I worked with Grok 3 to analyze all of the spending deep federal government spending cuts, possible end to the Ukraine war, privatization of parts of government, streamlining agencies and functions. I looked at using improved tax and other policies to achieve strong economic growth (doubling GDP growth from 2% per year to 4-5% per …
We are going through a large federal government spending cut in the range of $1 trillion to $2 trillion per year. This would be drop from $6.7 trillion in spending. The cuts would be 15% to 30% of the total spending. I worked with Grok 3 to come up with a good plan with very …
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede says “We are ready to talk.” Greenland PM will meet Trump. “Greenland looks forward to discussing the possibilities for business cooperation, the development of Greenland’s mineral sector, including critical minerals and other relevant areas with the US.“ Speaking next to Danish PM Mette Frederiksen at a joint press conference, Egede …
A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global public health and development threats. It is estimated that bacterial AMR was …
Canada’s realtime population count is about 3 weeks from reaching 41 million people. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada’s population had reached 40 million people. Canada is adding over 100,000 per month with 868,000 added over less than eight months. This will each over 880,000 by Feb 16, 2024. 15% of the …
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tuesday on a container ship in the Red Sea, and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones. MSC (Maersk) Mediterranean Shipping said there were no injuries to its crew from the attack on its ship, the United VIII, en route from Saudi Arabia …
According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan’s nominal GDP — that is, unadjusted for inflation — is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany’s is forecast to expand 8.4% to $4.42 trillion. The U.S., the world’s largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China’s economy, …
In July, China reported GDP growth of 5.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2023. This was one percentage point faster than the first quarter. Total GDP reached RMB 59.3 trillion (approx. US$8.3 trillion). In the second quarter, GDP grew by 6.3 percent year-on-year, up from 4.5 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter. …
Robin Hanson had a lot of tweets about the global fertility crisis. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. I will be talking with Robin Hanson this Friday and posting a video recording of the conversation. The current fertility situation:https://t.co/pvF6zZ86Ze pic.twitter.com/zwU61xoApZ — Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) August 21, 2023 World …