…a legitimate quote from Sabato contrasting W. and Reagan, breaks it up, twice prepends “Like Reagan”, and throws in an “also” for good measure.] “Mr. Bush and Reagan are the…

…Goldwater and Reagan’s ‘Law and Order’; in 1980 Reagan added other socially conservative appeals. He would appeal to their unease with the changes in the economy, and the pace of…

…myths about how “markets” (meaning some abstract aggregation of semi-rational, often ill-informed, but definitely self-interested points of light) would magically “know” and act rationally and with perfect foresight. In many…

…those who have bought into Milt Friedman’s free marketarianism: they suggest that the entire problem of the tax code–or the problem of the unprecedentedly low percentage of GDP we raise…

…General Fund transfers, they did in fact keep the checks flowing. So much for myth 2. As for myth 3, the Reagan raid on Social Security to pay for the…

…is the Reagan years, which showed up in the 1968 – 1988 post. It turns out that put into context, the Reagan years produced one year of rapid but not…

Marshall Auerback is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a market analyst and commentator. crossposted with New deal 2.0 The Myth of the “Credibility of Markets” It is…

by Bruce Webb Over at TPM Justin Fox is launching a discussion of his new book The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on…

…narrative marked by what I conceive to be myths. I attempted some myth busting this morning on my site Social Security: 2009 Myth Busting edition. No one has to read…

By: Divorced one like Bush I am responding to a post put up at Crooks and Liars: The McCain campaign small business myth. It presents that the myth is found…