Administration officials and private economists called the $2.2 billion increase a serious disappointment.
The Economist called the speech a "success on several measures".
The price is measured as what economists call 'opportunity cost'.
That is what economists call the expected utility of your vote.
Unemployment has been very low and is now near what economists call a "natural" rate.
Whatever market price such items might by themselves have, their cost is due more to what economists call rent.
Economists call the period of time between two peaks a business cycle.
A gold standard cannot be used for what some economists call financial repression.
For this reason, economists call water service a "natural monopoly."
Urban economists call the grant "so little they don't want it to work."