The US economy is the largest in the world. However in terms of growth rate, many emerging markets are growing at a much higher rate than the US. This is especially true with the major emerging economies of China and India according to a note by Colm McDonagh of Insight, a BNY mellon Company. Click to …
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Price inflation for goods and services in the US vary widely over the long term. Some items such as healthcare, higher education, childcare, etc. continues to go up year after year like clockwork. Housing is back on the rise after the crash during the global financial crisis of 2008-09. In major metropolitan areas decent housing …
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Tax receipts in the US are lower than government expenditures causing deficits year after year. Another factor to consider is that just because the stock market keeps rising Uncle Sam is not going to earn higher taxes. Conventional wisdom would mean that soaring stocks would lead to higher taxes paid to Uncle Sam.But that is …
The US market has outperformed the British and Japanese equity markets in terms of returns since October, 1987. The returns since that month are shown below: +745% DJIA +658% S&P 500 +214% FTSE 100 -24% Nikkei 225 Chart: Click to enlarge Source: UK Almanc via Twitter