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Forbes.com: Not Another Budget Commission?!!

Patrick wrote 15 hours ago: Notations Not Another Budget Commission! Bruce Bartlett, 12.18.09, 12:01 AM ET In a previous column … more →

Tags: 1, budget deficit, LinkedIn, Patrick Jones, Republican

Missing the Obvious2 comments

urbino wrote 1 day ago: Former Bush 43 advisor Bruce Bartlett suggests left and right strike a bargain: The left would accep … more →

Tags: Juvenal Urbino

Inequality Debated, Yet Again

aroundthesphere wrote 2 days ago: Dalton Conley at The American Prospect: We could choose to do nothing about inequality. After all, t … more →

Tags: Economics, The American Prospect, kevin drum, Will Wilkinson, Mark Thoma, dalton conley

I'm No Economist, but...

Tim Kowal wrote 1 week ago: …sometimes my intuition is right.  I suggested before that, even had our policy makers known that th … more →

Tags: Economics, Great Depression, Mortgage backed securities, Subprime Mortgages, The New American Economy

The Cost of War1 comment

Ariel Goldring wrote 1 week ago: Bruce Bartlett, former Treasury Department economist and columnist for Forbes, reviews the high pric … more →

Tags: military, Tax, Afghanistan, Cost, CRs, Korean War, omb, Price, taxes

Bruuuce! Bruuuce!

aroundthesphere wrote 3 weeks ago: Bruce Bartlett has a new book out. Book here. Blog here. Bartlett reprinted a National Review review … more →

Tags: Economics, The Crisis, Books, Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, National Review, financial crisis, firedoglake, American Spectator

Forbes.com: Republican Deficit Hypocrisy

Patrick wrote 4 weeks ago: Frankly this article is spot on.   As a Republican the truth hurts, but even more galling is the fac … more →

Tags: National Politics, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, GOP, LinkedIn, Republican

Should Congressmen Be Required to Read the Bills they Vote On?

Rodney Dunning wrote 1 month ago: No, they should not. Requiring members of Congress to read each bill before voting on it would akin … more →

Tags: Politics, Current Events, Alex Knapp, reading the bill, U. S. Congress

Recent tax cuts increased the 2009 deficit

realitytax wrote 1 month ago: Bruce Bartlett was a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and conservative supply sid … more →

Tags: economic recovery, GOP, Media Coverage, Obama Administration, taxes, U.S. economy, Reaganomics, trickle-down, U.S. Budget Deficit

Bruce Bartlett comes out in favor of VAT

davidkirkpatrick wrote 1 month ago: Bartlett is an interesting read these days. One of the major supply-siders back in the day, his econ … more →

Tags: Politics, Business, GOP, Fiscal Conservatism, Taxation, Value Added Tax, Supply side economics

'DC Update' Radio Hosts Economist Bruce Bartlett

Andrew Kreig wrote 1 month ago: Author Bruce Bartlett, originator of “Reaganomics,” critiqued harmful economic policies Oct. 22 on t … more →

Tags: Economic Policy, health care policy, Obama Administration, Washington Update Radio, How George W. Bankrupted America, Reaganomics, The New American Economy

How to Sell a Tax Increase

Jamelle wrote 1 month ago: I am nowhere near informed enough to offer any intelligent commentary on economic policy, but I am p … more →

Tags: domestic policy, Policy, Politics, Fiscal Responsibility, Taxation

Did he come to bury or praise Suppy-Side Economics?2 comments

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: Bruce Bartlett has just released a new book–and a mea culpa of sorts– for supply side ec … more →

Tags: The Great Recession, U.S. economy, Kemp Roth Tax bill, Reaganomics, Supply side economics

Did he come to bury or praise Suppy-Side Economics?9 comments

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: Bruce Bartlett has just released  a new book–and a mea culpa of sorts– for supply side e … more →

Tags: Economy, Economic Blogs, Economic Stimulus, Economic Development, Reaganomics, Supply Side econonomics

The Godfather Of Neoconservatism (And Father Of Bill) 1920-20091 comment

aroundthesphere wrote 3 months ago: Irving Kristol died today. John McCormack at TWS: Irving Kristol, writer, editor, and social philoso … more →

Tags: Conservative Movement, Michelle Malkin, bloggingheads, National Review, the new republic, David Frum, Mark Schmitt, Commentary, Foreign Policy

Le Produit Intérieur Brut N'est Aucun Bon

aroundthesphere wrote 3 months ago: Joseph Stiglitz at the Guardian: Eighteen months ago, French president Nicolas Sarkozy established t … more →

Tags: Foreign Affairs, Economics, Go Meta, Ezra Klein, kevin drum, huffington post, the guardian, npr, Will Wilkinson

Bruce Bartlett's latest cry for a hug2 comments

KingShamus wrote 3 months ago: From a genius over at David Frum’s Noo Wanna-Be Majority Hawtness. When I talk to old timers f … more →

Tags: media silliness, Cry Me A River, Sad-sack independents

Bruce Bartlett E-Mails Some Liberal Bloggers

aroundthesphere wrote 4 months ago: This started with Bruce Bartlett’s piece in the Daily Beast. It ends with: In my opinion, cons … more →

Tags: Mainstream, New Media, political figures, Steve Benen, atrios, Mainstream media, Alex Massie, daily beast, nick gillespie

"The GOP's Misplaced Rage"

jacohend wrote 4 months ago: Bruce Bartlett, one of the nation’s foremost conservative economists and one of the inventors … more →

Tags: GOP, protesters, Reaganomics, Supply side economics, bush, federal reserve


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