Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (754943)	11/27/2006 12:44:17 AM
From: RMF	Respond to of 769670

It's better to use GDP rather than GNP. GNP represents profits to the U.S. from production ANYPLACE in the world. If I hire kids in Indonesia to make shoes for me and I profit a million bucks off their labors it adds $1 million bucks to GNP, but it doesn't do anything for GDP. The ratio of National Debt to GDP dropped pretty much every year between the early '50's to 1981. From 1981 to the mid '90's it rose dramatically. Then during the later Clinton years it dropped again. Since early in the Bush Administration it has been rising dramatically again. This information came from the "Whitehouse. Gov" website.