economic growth

Why Trump should ignore the stock market
Opinion, Сolumns
VICTOR JOECKS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Mar 17, 2025
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s economic priority shouldn’t be preventing a recession. Stock prices are always a roller coaster. Over...
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The road to ‘getting stuff done’
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2024
There’s a lot of talk in Harrisburg about permitting reform and economic growth. It’s bipartisan. It’s bicameral. And it's appealing to businesses of ...
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Populism can run counter to economic growth
Opinion, Сolumns
ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 24, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — The degrowth movement, which had a moment a few years ago, is over — and not a moment too soon. As nations in Europe and North Americ...
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Capitalize on Main St. innovation
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 25, 2022
Even though Pennsylvania is among the nation’s foremost centers of high-tech research and development, it still is better known for the legacy industr...
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The labor market’s double-edged sword
Opinion, Сolumns
RACHEL GRESZLER - Tribune News Service 
Oct 13, 2022
The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a ...
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Reality’s revenge: The return of stagflation
Opinion, Сolumns
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Jul 29, 2022
The clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has said that you can bend reality only so far before it snaps back at you. In short, bad actions always ult...
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Inflation hardest on the poor
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 14, 2022
Consumer prices jumped 7.5% compared to last January, with necessities — electricity, gasoline, used cars, many food items — up at astonishing levels....
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Be real on spending, taxes
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 20, 2021
Most of us agree that tax law should be fair and equitable and that government spending should stay within fiscal means. But when the spending wish li...
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Local politicians react to tax code overhaul
Local News, News
ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Dec 21, 2017
One side says that the lower- and middle-income taxpayers will see larger tax cuts next year, while the other side indicates that the reductions are n...
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Dysfunction goes deeper than candidates
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON 
Nov 09, 2016
Regardless of who wins this bitterly contested election, the victor will face the same basic, daunting task: reconciling the vast promises that have b...
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