With a glut of cash in the treasuries of Wall Street, why enter into hiring for jobs? To create a greater glut? Why risk the liability of growth? Growth by the very nature of it creates risk. That risk is tamped down by market research and the like, but, growth is a risk.
No CEO is going to enter into risk if the stockholders are receiving reasonable dividends. Why risk paying positive dividends?
No matter how it is assessed, by job growth or investment, there is no reason for risk if stockholders are receiving profitable dividends. Any CEO has to answer for any loss of income, why go there?
Most Republicans if not all state that debt and deficit spending is good for the USA's treasury. It is because government debt is enriching the private sector in government spending. Why, if debt and deficit spending is good for the government, isn't it good for Wall Street?
There ways of increasing production without job growth, namely mechanization. Below is the definition of economic growth per Canada. They don't lie.
Economists (click here) use many different methods to measure how fast the economy is growing. The most common way to measure the economy is real gross domestic product, or real GDP. GDP is the total value of everything - goods and services - produced in our economy. The word "real" means that the total has been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation.
There are at least three different ways to measure growth of real GDP. It is important to know which is being used, and to understand the differences among them. The three most common ways to measure real GDP are:
- Quarterly growth at an annual rate
- The four-quarter or "year-over-year" growth rate
- The annual average growth rate
Quarterly growth at an annual rate shows the change in real GDP from one quarter to the next, compounded into an annual rate. (This process is often called "annualizing.") For example, in the second quarter of 2001, the economy grew 0.1 per cent from the first quarter. If the economy had grown at that pace for an entire year, the annual growth would be 0.4 per cent. So the quarterly growth at an annual rate was reported at 0.4 per cent....
