A fascinating set of charts.
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute has an intriguing idea. Instead of a regular debate, he would like presidential candidates to respond to a handful of charts from the recent Economic Report of the President that supposedly highlight very important issues.
We’d quickly find out — I hope — who has real deep knowledge on key economic issues and challenges facing America.
I don’t always agree with Pethokoukis’ views (see here, here, and here), but he has a very good idea. He may not have picked the charts I would rank as most important, but I think 5 of the 6 charts he shared are worthy of discussion (I’m not persuaded that the one about government R&D spending has much meaning).
Let’s look at them and elaborate on why they are important.
We’ll start with the chart of labor productivity growth, which has been declining…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Feb 25, 2016 @ 13:24:16
where are the charts?
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Feb 25, 2016 @ 17:58:10
try the link. I have no control over how much is previewed in a reblog.
Some reblogs are very stingy others are very generous in the narrow amount of material that is reblogged above the fold
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