…and job creation reflects three separate but mutually reinforcing factors: US corporate governance, Obama’s economic policies and the deregulation of US labor markets. Old economic models assume that companies merely…

…old ones who would reinstate failed policies, not that the policies themselves failed. He also thinks that because his recent poll shows that a majority of independents think that “[h]aving…

…personal savings because savers would realize greater after tax returns. So virtually everyone was surprised when these policies were miserable failures as the personal savings rate fell irregularly to almost…

…housing shortages. Note that the questions here are not whether the benefits of these policies might outweigh the costs, but the basic economic effects of these policies. Those identifying as…

…Why is China the “workshop of the world” when Indian labour is even cheaper and her entrepreneurs admired worldwide? There are many reasons, including (until recently) the anti-foreign-trade policies and…

…idea to put an excise tax on high-end health care policies like the ones that the executives at Goldman Sachs have, the $40,000 policies,” Mr. Axelrod said. Goldman did not…

…Democratic presidencies with a few tightly correlated economic variables. What’s the mechanism? What makes electric power lines cause cancer, but not the earth’s vastly more powerful magnetic field? What policies…

…for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate. Unfortunately, as Paul Wolfowitz observed, policies should always be evaluated by their results, not their purposes….

…low tax rate policies. They use the drop in the unemployment rate to demonstrate how well their policies worked. But this data set implies that FDR’s policies was just as…

…policies are tax cuts for rich people. Their hero Reagan signed into law a huge tax increase on the non-rich (Greenspan commission proposals). In practice they cut taxes for rich…