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Bruce Bartlett on the Alleged Housing Bubble

Bruce asks what bubble: It is worth noting that housing prices aren’t just rising here, they are rising worldwide. According to the Economist magazine, housing prices rose 65 percent in…

1,121 Words on Bruce’s Post, with footnote

I’m going to have to do a little clean-up work here (i.e., run the data in Excel instead of Stata), so I’ll ask forgiveness for the double-labels and all that.Graphic…

Conservatives Aren’t Fond of Bush

As you may know, Bruce Bartlett has a new book out about the Bush presidency entitled “Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy” which is…

The Medicare Mess: An Almost Good NRO Oped

Bruce Bartlett’s latest raises the standards of NRO economics just a bit: It is not clear what is driving the urgency of Social Security reform. It is desirable, to be…