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Valerie Plame Leaves the CIA

…the Bush administration. All of that is false,” said former CIA officer Larry Johnson, a friend of Plame. “At the end of the day, she was betrayed by her own…

Rewriting the History of the Bush Tax Cuts

…right wingers claiming that they opposed the 2001 tax cuts: As an advisor to then-candidate George W. Bush, Larry Lindsey helped design a Keynesian tax cut in 2000, which was…

Kudlow on the New Contract with America

…a windfall-profits tax to reduce the government deficit so we don’t have to rely on taxing the working poor as much. Larry – care to join me and Senator Boxer?…

Kudlow on Demand and Supply for Oil

…the 1970s. It’s a growth-oriented demand increase. OK, Kudlow does seem to understand that the supply curve has not shifted inward but what does “demand falls off” mean? Larry –…

PlameGate & Rove: the Right Reacts – Part V

…trying to count the lies in this editorial, maybe we should thank AB reader AB Initio for the piece from Larry Johnson. Mr. Johnson sums up this entire issue quite…

Kudlow Kontradicts Kash

OK, my apologies for the clownish way of spelling “contradict”, but if we read Larry’s latest, you’ll realize he did not at all challenge Kash: Three months ago the first…

Kudlow’s “Evidence” for the Free Lunch

…boom was due to Clinton’s tax cuts. That’s odd. And of course, he had to mention his hero – Ronald Reagan. I guess Larry has not read Mankiw’s textbook that…

The Problem with Bush’s Weak Economic Team

…cuts were a bad idea. Larry Lindsey, Mr Bush’s bumptious first chairman of the National Economic Council, was pushed out soon after he made the impolitic (but pretty accurate) point…