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Should Bush’s Economy Earn a Passing Grade?

…economic data that we have gotten from the proponents of free-lunch supply-side “economics” over the last generation. And we should not be surprised that this is going on just before…

Corporate Caution

…Recent trends on the wage income generation front have taken a modest turn for the better. However, in the 12 months ending this July, real wage and salary disbursements still…

…Re-establishing an effective procedural framework for budgetary decisionmaking should be a high priority. But it is only a start. As we prepare for the retirement of the baby-boom generation and…

…a longer term perspective that fewer and fewer of my generation are left to speak to. To be sure you understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell…

…It is now my honor to sign the first broad tax relief in a generation. Remember this, whenever you hear Bush talk about how harmful it is for the economy…

…next generation will be paying for a collapsed social security system, a bankrupted Medicare program, soaring interest on the public debt, as well as coughing up far higher taxes to…

…integration of the Chinese labor force into the world labor market will allow for a neo-Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system to exist for a generation. Crossposted at Fester’s Place…

…wealth mobility in America has signifcantly declined in the past generation as the strong institutions in American civil society which created a great Compression of wealth after the Second World…

…administration’s bow.” And from The Economist: George Bush’s free-trade rhetoric looks increasingly hollow A GENERATION ago, bra-burning was a symbol of the womens’ movement. This week, bras found a new…

…of Mexico and to expand the generation of power through wind, among other things. AB UPDATE: I can’t disagree with Matt Y. ‘s assessment of Daschle: I’m going to have…