…card for Bush’s first term was completed. By all historical standards, it provided a passing grade. “Three-point-seven percent is pretty good,” said Thomas M. Holbrook, a professor of political science…

…long as oil prices do not rise significantly higher, the likely effects of recent increases will be relatively modest on the U.S. economy,” Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas…

…press overuses the term “conservative economists”. In my view, this term properly applies to economists such as Milton Friedman, Thomas Sargent, and many others who are very able economists and…

Luddism is attributed to English workers in the early 1800’s who felt technological progress threatened their jobs. I seriously doubt that Alan Greenspan is a Luddite, but Thomas Nugent writes:…

…the long-term. After all, it was this type of fiscal policy that Rubin and others convinced President Clinton to pursue in 1993. Alas, George Bush and Bill Thomas conspired against…

Voting for Kerry Looking for reasons to vote for Kerry, instead of simply against Bush? Read this piece by Thomas Oliphant in the current issue of The American Prospect. Kash…

…Senate. This is hugely significant. The narrative that Frank describes [Thomas Frank, in this Friday NYT Op/Ed] depends on the idea that an elitist minority is blocking the obvious conviction…

…Tom Daschle, follows a visit by junior minister Gareth Thomas. Around 10 Labour MPs are expected to attend the convention in Boston. A spokesman for Mr Hain denied that the…

…to 32.5% by the end of 1981. Despite Edward’s claim that “Reagan did not invent deficit spending”, Thomas Sargent and Neil Wallace warned in the fall of 1981 in “Some…

Urban Job Markets Under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II In a nice bit of work, G. Scott Thomas of American City Business Journals (a non-partisan straight news entity…