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Tax Policy, GDP Growth, and the Deficit

…Once one adjusts for business cycle effects, the effect of neither the Bush43 nor the Reagan fiscal stimulus on long-term growth does not appear to be as rosy as the

The View from the Right

…Like Ronald Reagan As was the case during the Reagan years, the culture of spending has prevailed over the Republican promises to control spending and become fiscally responsible. After too…

Low Savings as Key to Prosperity?

…Tamny wants to go back a generation, let’s remind him that the Reagan fiscal stimulus raised real interest rates. But it is true that real interest rates are low today….

Fiscal Policies That Hubbard & Mankiw Probably Did Not Endorse

…why Stephen Moore opposed Mankiw being appointed to the CEA: Mankiw refers to Ronald Reagan’s supply-side advisers as “charlatans and cranks.” Mankiw’s criticism of Reagan’s fiscal irresponsibility was first-rate. Yet,…

In Defense of the Apparel Quota

…restrict trade by President Reagan who like George W. Bush preached free trade but ignored his own CEA’s advice to also practice it. If I had the thankless task of…

George Will’s Holy Trinity

…he served so ably. But no liberal or conservative partisan hack should politicize this Pope – as George will did today when Will compared the Pope to Reagan and Thatcher….

Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?

the “Squander the Surplus” hypothesis. The Squander the Surplus, however, is not the same as the Starve the Beast hypothesis. Yes, Reagan fiscal policy, which has been revived by Bush43,…

Disingenuous Defense of Bush’s Fiscal Policy

…who must have figured out that candidate Reagan was right in 1980 when he advocated growth through more savings and investment. Alas, the policies of President Reagan did just the