Bruce Bartlet of The NYC gives us this perspective on rescue plans. The history of anti-recession efforts is that they are almost always initiated too late to do any good….

J Edgar Hoover, former FBI Director Sinclair Lewis wrote a book with the ironic title It Can’t Happen Here. (hat tip to Bruce Webb from comments here). There is a…

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…to him too? Which leads me to Bruce Webb’s comment (comments I agree with) in Stormy’s post: Any changes that don’t ultimately cut costs or boost productivity are in that…

Bruce Bartlett and Brad DeLong note that even the Washington Times is challenging the credibility of our Treasury Secretary: According to Mr. Snow’s own numbers, which Mr. Frank had to…

…Mr. Tamny has learned about the Hume Specie Flow mechanism, but he should be careful before he insists that this simple theory always works so perfectly in practice. Update: Bruce…

Sensible and honest conservative Bruce Bartlett emails me the latest nonsense from Deroy Murdock: Modest legislation to extend President Bush’s tax cuts for two years, rather than make them permanent,…

On March 31, David Altig discussed this paper by Stephanie Aaronson, Bruce Fallick, Andrew Figura, Jonathan Pingle and William Wascher: On balance, the results suggest that most of the decline…

David Altig says yes. He also reviews a recent paper by Stephanie Aaronson, Bruce Fallick, Andrew Figura, Jonathan Pingle and William Wascher entitled The Recent Decline in Labor Force Participation…

…or Bruce Bartlett’s latest post.) Advantages of a VAT: It can raise lots of new tax revenue with relatively low tax rates. A reasonably broad-based 10% VAT in the US…