…the audience?” …Bartlett argued that Richard Nixon “is the model for everything Bush is doing.” Sullivan said Karl Rove’s political strategy is “pathetic.” Bartlett said that “the administration lies about…

…Republicans were cutting spending for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Many commentators accepted this as truth and repeated it, including Washington Post columnist E. J….

…Richard Musgrave in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that made the same essential point – governments share in risk-taking through taxation. While Domar & Musgrave made their argument a generation…

…pre-9/11 example. Let us recall that the bulldog of the Clinton era, Richard Clarke, was hounding Condi Rice at the NSA to break down the bureaucratic barriers and to “shake…

…Un-American Activities, Richard M. Nixon and Karl Mundt revealed to reporters testimony that Whittaker Chambers claimed Duggan was a Communist, charges that Chambers himself repudiated. Includes tributes, statements, and transcripts…

…optimal level of investment. David seems to be making the same argument that this critique of the Durbin proposal makes: A proposal from Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., that he maintains…

…is doing. It seems Shaviro agrees with Kash. Richard Vedder is often credited with Starve the Beast theory. The evidence put forth by Vedder is simply that higher taxes (T)…

…avoid political conflicts of interest, which is a different issue from insider trading. Joshua Marshall – who understands this distinction – promises “more soon”. Update: Richard Drezen reports: According to…

…dollars, a Republican president, Richard Nixon, declared “we are all Keynesians now.” He was referring to British economist John Maynard Keynes, who in the 1930s called the gold standard a…

Hat tip to Brad DeLong for noting the analysis from Richard Kogan and Isaac Shapiro who write: The trimming of the deficit is certainly a positive development. But this development…