Archive for March 2019

US GDP grew at a strong 2.6% annualized rate in 18Q4, resulting in CY2018 GDP growth of 2.9%, and growth of even 3.1% if comparing 18Q4 from a year earlier. However, no matter how measured, growth is slowing. It was 3.4% in 18Q3; 4.2% in 18Q2. In CY2019, growth will slow to 2.4%, and to…

The Friday File: This week, the Periodic Table celebrates its 150th birthday. In 1789, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (who was beheaded in 1794) first published a list of 33 elements thought to be incapable of being broken down. However, it was Dimitri Mendeleev in 1869 who first organized the 63 then-known elements by their atomic weights…