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BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
What Killed Off The GOP Deficit Hawks? The Republicans are now the ones making excuses for big deficits.   |
Reason
May 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
When Do Deficits Matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides regarding deficit spending, economists try to pin down a tipping point. |
Reason
May 2009
Damon W. Root |
Hating Milton Friedman A proud father of global prosperity. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
The Budget Mess Bush Can No Longer Ignore The U.S. economy can't grow its way out of such big deficits. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Robert J. Barro |
It's The Spending, Stupid -- Not The Deficit Huge debt often helps curb outlays. But today that isn't happening. A discussion about government spending and taxes. |
Inc.
July 1, 2003
Bobbie Gossage |
Back to the Future The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
Anthony York |
Bring on the budget deficit Robert Reich denounces Democrats' debt-reduction fetish, and compares Al Gore to Calvin Coolidge... |
Reason
May 2008
Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2006
Mike Norman |
The Passing of a Giant Great economist Milton Friedman is gone, but his theories and those of another giant, John Maynard Keynes, live on. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics The heavyweight economy policy debate over the past two decades has been Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics. The two philosophies seem to have fought each other to a draw. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2006
Brian Lawler |
So Long, Milton Milton Friedman, perhaps the best-known academic economist of modern times, died yesterday at the age of 94. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Plutocrats to the rescue! While the spineless Dems dither, the stiffest resistance to Bush's outrageous tax plan comes from an unlikely quarter: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr.... |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 22, 2006
Jim Heskett |
Summing Up on Friedman and Galbraith: Complementary or Competing Views? Readers respond to the question of who will cast a longer shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith? Friedman seems more influential... With regard to national security, pollution, energy policy... The ideas of both Friedman and Galbraith had relevance... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Here, You Fix the Budget By next Wednesday, a group of politicians dubbed the "supercommittee" has to come up with a plan to slash federal deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
National Defense
May 2004
Sandra Erwin |
Defense Watch: Fiscal Storm on the Horizon The nation's soaring budget deficits will leave future administrations--whether they are Republican or Democrat--no choice but to cut defense. |
Reason
February 2007 |
Divided We Stand What sort of legislation and political theater should the friends of "Free Minds and Free Markets" expect during the next two years? Is the new situation an improvement or disaster? |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
Harping On The Deficit May Undo The Dems I hope the Democratic candidates for President are in touch with Joseph E. Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel prize co-winner in economics. Stiglitz has challenged a premise that has become like holy writ: the idea that deficit reductions caused the boom of the 1990s. |
Reason
March 2007
Brian Doherty |
The Life and Times of Milton Friedman Remembering the 20th century's most influential libertarian. Reviewing Milton Friedman's life and career as an economist and polemicist, one can find a story of unexpected, unprecedented success promoting ideas that pushed against the Zeitgeist and in many ways managed to change it. |
BusinessWeek
November 7, 2005
Michael Mandel |
What's So Good About Growth Read "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" to understand the links between technological, economic, and moral progress. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007 |
30 Years Ago in Reason From August 1977: Robert Poole Jr., "Whither the Libertarian Party?"... "Reason Interview: Milton Friedman"... etc. |
Reason
February 2008
Brian Doherty |
Cut Taxes and Spend A new study indicates that government spending seems to march on regardless of revenue or tax rates. |
Reason
June 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
The Milton Friedman Show An interview with Bob Chitester, who produced the libertarian Free to Chose television series in the late 1970s, on how the show and Milton Friedman in particular influenced American ideas on markets and freedom. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004 |
Bush's Borrowing Is Sapping Our Strength The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office says tax cuts will likely slow growth |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen. |
Knowledge@Wharton
April 23, 2003 |
The Bush Tax Reform Plan: Greener Pastures vs. the Road to Perdition Robert J. Barro, an economics professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, took up the cudgels for President Bush's proposed $726 billion tax reform plan. On the other side of the ring was Alan S. Blinder, a Princeton University economics professor. |
Reason
October 2008
Johan Norberg |
Defaming Milton Friedman Naomi Klein's new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, is a disastrous yet popular polemic against the great free market economist Milton Friedman. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
William C. Symonds |
Dr. Dean on the Record Says the former Vermont governer and Dem '04 hopeful: George Bush "is a President who doesn't have a clue" |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Sick of the Budget Deficit? Read This What really sent us over the edge. For one, there was a good round of tax cuts enacted under President Bush. And two wars. You know the story. Moreover, the economy didn't grow as fast as expected. |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
Why the Democrats Can't Win On Taxes Only hikes can fund plans for health care, education -- and yes, breaks for workers. |
Salon.com
July 24, 2002 |
How to fix a broken economy Judging by his performance to date, President Bush can use all the help he can get. Here are some expert suggestions. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Mandel & Dunham |
Can Anyone Steer This Economy? Global forces have taken control of the economy. And government, regardless of party, will have less influence than ever |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2010
Paul M. Barrett et al. |
Republicans Win a Big Redistricting Edge Big state-level gains mean GOP dominance in redrawing congressional districts. |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Beltway Battle Ahead If Bush is willing to deal, he'll have a chance to fix Social Security, say both Democratic and Republican insiders. But he'll need to build bridges with Democrats and sell economic conservatives on compromise. |
