…to remember is that, as Ronald Reagan always said, personnel is policy. And Donald Trump has promised as president to surround himself with the best people. You saw last night…

…When Reagan turned that dial to eleven, he was only occupying ideological ground that Democrats had ceded and abandoned to the enemy, long before. It was an epochal own-goal of…

…Y/Y pace than Reagan. John never seems to mention that. And yes, growth in the 1980s was good. But after the initial acceleration (which is more a function of statistics…

…it. Iran-Contra was nasty stuff, but Reagan made it through intact, as did his Nicaragua policy, and even the underlings caught red-handed survived and prospered. But let’s not compare Trump…

…the US is always running deficits is primarily because of interest costs. Even the notorious “Reagan deficits” were primarily payments, occasioned by the huge spike in interest rates, on outstanding…

…at least as great as the debt/GDP ratio, we are not on the bankruptcy path that economists were talking about when Reagan initiated his 1981 fiscal fiasco. Tax rates were…

…The author Steven Johnson has plausibly argued that air conditioning elected Ronald Reagan. Reagan came to power in 1980, a time when America used more than half the world’s air…

…that was the recovery from the deep Reagan recession. If one looks at potential GDP growth over the 1981 to 1992 period or even actual real GDP growth over the…

…like Reagan’s fiscal stimulus in 1981 in that both cut taxes for the rich and increased defense spending. Oh wait – Cochrane was all supportive of these fiscal moves last…

…1983-85 when Reagan had his round of trade protectionism, mostly directed at Japan. Lighthizer notes that when defending current policy, but his firm has also supported the steel industry in…