…claim to an economic legacy rests with his claim that he set out to balance the budget, succeeded, and this led to lower interest rates which led to the economic…

…economic difficulties for the US in particular and the world overall. This question is being ignored or minimized in economic blogs one reader states. Look for more on the topic….

…to be 6.5% of GDP. That was their first economic plan. A recession came – they blamed it on Clinton and 9/11 and pushed through tax cuts, and more tax…

From the Saturday NYT story by Floyd Norris. Just to preclude the comments, this is from the economic bottom, so it does not include the recession Bush inherited….

…democracy has historically played a pivotal role in the rise of social expenditures; and that social spending has not gravely weakened economic incentives and long-term economic growth, despite the drumbeat…

John McCain’s Economic plan….

…Table V.B2: Additional Economic Factors, and Table V.A1: Principal Demographic assumptions, all of which (and many more) to be found in 2008 Social Security Report: List of Tables. The Economic…

…economic slowdown, breaking with the recent past when the state suffered longer and deeper recessions than the rest of the United States. The University of Massachusetts said yesterday that the…

Hat tip to reader TinMan. Steve Liesman, senior economic advisor to CNBC TV, predicts optimism for the rebate effect, just like in 2001. TinMan says: So, that stimulus check is…

…other side, these people say, are staunch economic conservatives like Keith B. Hennessey, the new director of Mr. Bush’s National Economic Council. They have reservations about the need for an…