…– early in the Reagan administration, not during the GHW administration. (Though if one reads the National Review or Clown Hall, one can sometimes find examples where they credit Reagan…

…to 1983 when President Reagan and Congress decided to raise that payroll tax rate to 12.4%. Lockart’s blue line is well below his 12.4% red line, which means that the…

…Reagan did not control federal spending growth. By 1989, federal spending was up 69 percent from 1981”? It is true that Reagan failed to cut government spending to pay for…

Real aggregate wage growth finally overtakes Reagan expansion In my opinion the best measure of how average Americans’ situations have improved during an economic expansion is real aggregate wage growth….

A Kennedy-Reagan-Trump Fiscal Policy? Heather Long reports that the White House economists have no clue about the history of U.S. fiscal policy: President Trump’s policies are driving an economic turnaround…

…when Reagan denigrated the educated, the intelligentsia. Instead of lifting the masses up, Reagan would bring the eggheads and elites down. Reagan pandered to the Christian Right, a racist, bigoted,…

…and those of their sons and daughters suburbanites across the northern states. Before the Reagan revolution was over, Reagan had successfully weakened some of the Democratic Party’s most prized accomplishments…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…