…in office, presidents Nixon, Reagan, and GW all tempered their original enthusiasm for slashing and burning, perhaps after some David Stockman in their midst managed to notice, as we will…

…where we are going, we need to look further back than say the 50’s through Reagan’s time. That is, if the data is around. I view the Great Depression as…

…supply-siders back in 1983 were singing a different tune at a conference on Reaganomics where the economists fell into three basic camps. One camp of conservative economists (let’s call them…

…address from a shattered New Orleans, it was as though the disaster of Hurricane Katrina had transformed the president from the logical heir to Ronald Reagan to some curious amalgam…

…irresponsibility during Reagan’s first term and the large current account deficit caused in part by a massive dollar appreciation. Rip might be happy to have learned that Reagan’s second term…

…we solve the problem,” he said. “We don’t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem.” One might quip that President Reagan was less fiscally responsible than Governor Reagan….

…O’Reilly. O’Reilly was trying to suggest that the Reagan tax cuts increased economic growth. Never mind the fact that savings and investment fell and that real GDP grew by only…

…not to their liking. As Ronald Reagan once said, “facts are stubborn things.” Facts can also be checked even if Mr. Tammy forgot to mention them. As Dr. Mankiw realized…

…Of course, this pay-as-you-go claim is based on the premise that President Reagan and Alan Greenspan lied to us in 1983. Back then, the stated reason for increasing the payroll…

…His explanation? Mr. O’REILLY: And when did the R&D blow and get into the go-go ’90s? It happened when Reagan cut taxes, all right… Prof. KRUGMAN: I love this. Mr….