The precise calculations can be done by combining this example calculation with this beer rate.

FORBES: Watering the Workers' Beer

This emerges from a calculation by Philip Booth and Geoffrey Wood, economists at City University.

ECONOMIST: Housing market

Investors should also consider this calculation, made on Twitter, by Zacks analyst Jason Napodano, regarding the size of the U.S. market.

FORBES: Pfizer Enters Market For Super-Expensive, Ultra-Rare Disease Drugs -- With A Price Cut

Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's Global Makeover

And this, whether it is motivated by obstinacy, denial or a sober calculation of the strategic stakes in Iraq, is a good thing.

ECONOMIST: George Bush and Iraq

And so General Musharraf's calculation is that he can burnish his credentials as an anti-terrorist fighter by ending this in a violent manner.

NPR: Lax Oversight Cited for Pakistan Violence

The reality is that government spending did decline by 4.1% in the quarter, and this shaved 0.8% off a GDP calculation that counts government spending as a plus no matter what it is spent on.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Growth Deficit