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Too much wealth?

…throwing around a few labels like “left wing” and “strawman argument”) proceeded to make the unsupported blanket and absolute assertion that “American millionaires … know what it’s like to struggle…

Megan McArdle Has a Question

…others who believe that a (D) is short-hand for something else, namely that the politician generally hews a bit more closely to a particular set of policies that have worked…

Yglesias and Klein on notPaul Samuelson

…from the op-ed. It exemplifies idiocy. I quote the quote All “reforms” do not succeed; some cause more problems than they solve. Johnson’s economic policies, inherited from Kennedy, proved disastrous;…

The Bush Economy by Karl Rove

…when Bush took office but was only 63% as of April 2006. Rove describes Bush’s economic policies thusly: And he believes that economic growth is created largely on the economy’s…

Free Trade: Bill Buckley v. Lou Dobbs

…free trade. Roderick Boyd in the New York Sun reports: “One intellectual opponent of Mr. Dobbs’s said he focuses on the costs of America’s free-market policies without even trying to…