…For the supply-siders among you, we’ll take an extra special look at the Reagan years. Graph 1, from FRED, shows YoY RDGP growth over the span of the data series….

…culminates with the election of Ronald Reagan, who represented everything the conservative businessmen had worked for since the New Deal. Reagan made a stand against unions when he fired the…

…crowd of conservative donors on Saturday that “the most significant foreign policy decision” of his lifetime was when Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. … “Candidly, I think foreign…

…risen since Reagan – even under his Republican successor, but no Democrat in Congress or the Presidency has pushed for rates to go back to pre-Reagan levels). Of course, there…

…Reagan would try to cut Medicare. Then Mondale noted that Reagan did indeed try to cut Mecicare. This was described the next day as “hitting it out of the park”…

…Ronald Reagan ran for president with the story of a “welfare queen” from the South Side of Chicago—code words for “Black”—who lived large on government benefits she stole. “She has…

This story should be a lot better known than it is. That, and that Blumlein is too nice a person, because it’s the 1986 Tax Reorganization that destroyed the future….

…the previous post, the best ever year of the Reagan administration is also included for comparison purposes. Notice… growth was already fairly quick from 1938 to 1939, and from 1939…

…because he accurately summarized an article in The Washington Post. ” The Obama campaign misused a recent Washington Post article to label Romney as an “outsourcer in chief.”” Yes the…

…we would now call Movement Conservatism, that strand leading from Landon to Reagan never embraced Social Security and warned against expansion of the concept via Medicare and federalized Welfare programs,…