By Scott Benjamin

If the national unemployment rate in 2019 was at its lowest level in 50 years. . .

If by early this year 68 percent of the people surveyed in a Gallup Poll were satisfied with the economy – a 20 percent leap from three years earlier. . .

Then why did the gross domestic product (GDP) only grow 2.86 percent in 2019 when in the 1990’s it increased by more than four percent in five different years?

University of Houston Economics Professor Dietrich Vollrath stated in his recent book, “Fully Grown” (The University of Chicago Press, 260 pages) that a “stagnant economy is a sign of success.”

In effect, Vollrath, who writes the Growth Economics Blog, indicated that after you have assembled the

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