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Focuses on flaws in the U.S. economic growth, in context with the growth in the country's population. Need for distinction between concepts of population growth and economic growth; Factors affecting the country's economic growth; Correlation between the solutions for tackling population growth with that of encouraging economic growth.

This article presents information regarding the book "Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy," by Ethan B. Kapstein. Kapstein argues that the inequality and poverty that characterize today's global economy are politically dangerous, economically unproductive and morally bankrupt. Politically dangerous because these trends can provoke a harsh reactionary politics. Economically unproductive because rising levels of inequality result in lower rates of economic growth and threaten a global recession. Morally bankrupt because the global economic system will lose legitimacy if its gains go overwhelmingly to the richest.

This article presents information regarding the political and economic developments in the U.S. The silverites of the U.S. will be confounded to learn that the Rothschilds are bimetallists. Whether U.S.' Western friends will be pleased or shocked by this information it can be predicted that they will find some difficulty in swallowing all the hard things they have said about this hateful house, who are always "cornering gold" and making money dear in order that they may suck the blood of borrowers all over the world. The death of William Mahone removes from the stage a man who fifteen years ago was one of the chief figures in national politics.

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments in the world. One of the section of the article focuses on the Sherman silver law. The idea that a party which had declared a law so intolerable that it ought to be repealed without delay, should propose to continue it in operation for another year, was in itself too absurd for serious consideration, and when the proposed extension for a twelvemonth of this "cowardly makeshift" was accompanied by other makeshift even more cowardly and dangerous, one had not the patience to discuss the matter. Another section of the article says that what has probably given rise to the notion that silver is dear to debtors, and that mankind is in debt, is, that a very large number of silver agitators are in debt, and want to pay off their obligations in a depreciated currency, but, compared to "the greatest portion of mankind," these gentlemen are a very small handful.

Before the Marshall Plan was passed and the new military program was announced, the U.S. seemed to be headed toward an economic slump, perhaps next fall. Downward tendencies were already marked. In recent months the gap between production and mass consumption has widened. According to recent statistics, compiled by U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, consumer purchasing power is lower today than at any time since 1942. Mounting prices in the first three months of the year more than wiped out what gains had been made in individual income. The Marshall Plan alone probably cannot halt this tendency. It will of course increase the production of goods to be shipped load, and so tend to hold up prices and maintain employment.

In a previous article, the author elaborated on the simple proposition that an index which evaluated the annual growth of man-made goods while assiduously ignoring the annual growth of man-made "bads," the noxious spillover from modern industry and its products, could not be relied upon to plot the course of real income over time. Moreover, if the condition of society is such that the annual increment of goods adds a measure of choice that is marginal to people's contentment, while the annual increment of "bads" deprives them of environmental choices that are vital to their sense of well being, a decline in social welfare may accompany the observed growth of gross national product. In principle, at least, many of these vexatious spillover effects can be measured, though in practice they are only beginning to enter into the cost-benefit studies of a number of public investment projects.