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AEI Economists and the Ugly Memory Hole

…tax rates have led to lower government revenues, says Alan Viard, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy group. “The Reagan tax cuts, on the whole, reduced…

The Time I Offered to Bet $10,000

…for the first time in a year or so. (Ask your grandfather about the recession of 1990-1991.) In short, I am not liquidity-constrained. Alan “Ace” Greenberg—the last CEO of Bear…