…their work creating a new political order well before the transition to a full reconstructive politics. The conservative movement that defined the Reagan years began to really gain influence during…

…I want to look at the following variable: Annualized Growth rate over the next four years less Annualized Growth rate for the previous four years. Thus, for, say, 1981, Reagan’s…

…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…

…made these points originally in an AB post in late June, a few days before Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton, a highly-regarded conservative Reagan appointee prominent Federalist…

…goes again. Because quoting Reagan is cool. Out on the campaign trail, President Obama is proposing more federal spending as his answer to sluggish growth and jobs. That won’t do…

…state. Ronald Reagan tried to loosen the structures that restricted individual initiative and led to national sclerosis. He and Margaret Thatcher deregulated, privatized, cut tax rates in order to liberate…

…Reagan wanted to bankrupt the Federal government? It was clear to most of us that President Clinton wanted to restore fiscal responsibility. Was it clear to you that Reagan was…

…of government revenues indeed ended up helping balance the budget in 1964-65. Federal revenues doubled in the 1980s as a result of the Reagan tax-rate cuts. Today the evidence continues…

…of the October 27, 2000 WSJ op-ed endorsement of George W. Bush to adopt my suggestion since Moore and Laffer tried to tell the WSJ readers that the Reagan tax…

…oil shocks about which he could do little. Similarly, Reagan’s first two years were also quite bad for reasons largely beyond his control. On balance, when a president claims that…