Two-Percent Growth Is a Loser for the Angry Middle Class. But Where’s the GOP Solution?

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Ricochet: Two-Percent Growth Is a Loser for the Angry Middle Class. But Where’s the GOP Solution?

Larry Kudlow / February 26, 2016 / 25 COMMENTS

The good news is that the economy is growing at 2 percent and that there’s no recession in sight (barring a complete collapse of profits). The bad news is that the economy is growing at 2 percent. It’s been doing so for nearly 15 years under Democratic and Republican administrations.

 

Coming off a deep recession, real GDP growth is averaging no better than 2 percent. After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent.

 

Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent.