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Salon.com February 15, 2001 Daryl Lindsey	Reaganomics redux Supply-side economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth defends President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut...
Reason November 2008 Veronique de Rugy	Fear of a Unified Government What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency?
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....
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.
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 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.
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 June 2003 Jesse Walker	Trading Places In matters economic, Democrats are supposed to be the party of big government, Republicans the faction of fiscal and regulatory restraint. But when it comes to the executive branch, the sides seem to have reversed.
Inc. July 1, 2003 Bobbie Gossage	Back to the Future The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque.
Financial Advisor October 2006 Bruce W. Fraser	Economic Pin Balls As it stands today, Bush's economic legacy is still uncertain. Is Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. more than a Hail Mary?
Reason January 2009 Matt Welch	Obama's Numbers The president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2006 Mike Norman	America IS Fiscally Responsible But bad ideas from the "Debt Doomsday" crowd can bring on trouble. While it's true that the nominal figures have grown, it's a mistake to examine the national deficit and debt numbers without some frame of reference.
Salon.com March 9, 2001 Jake Tapper	Where's the other team? As Bush's tax cut sails through the House, Democrats grumble about their lackluster leadership...
Salon.com September 5, 2001 Jake Tapper	Budget battle looms Bush continues to stand behind some loopy surplus figures. But can the Democrats mount an effective counterattack?
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Howard Gleckman	As Growth Sizzles, What's A Dem To Do? Presidential hopefuls will try to ignite middle class rage over breaks for the wealthy.
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Robert Kuttner	What Killed Off The GOP Deficit Hawks? The Republicans are now the ones making excuses for big deficits.
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 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 17, 2010 Coy & Przybyla	Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics.
Salon.com September 28, 2001 Damien Cave	Greenspan's New Deal Save the poor! No breaks for the rich! Has the Fed chairman become a tax-and-spend Democrat?
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Mike Norman	Balance the Budget and Unbalance the Economy From time to time the idea of a balanced budget amendment has been floated, but so far it has never come to pass. Thankfully. We need to fear a balanced budget more than 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 August 2, 2004	Robert Rubin: Embrace Kerry Clinton's Treasury Secretary says the Democrat has what's needed to get America out of its "threatening fiscal hole"
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.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Bruce Nussbaum	Why Rubinomics Worked At a time when best-seller lists are dominated by Clinton-haters, Bush-bashers, and ideologues of the right and left, Robert E. Rubin's In an Uncertain World comes as calm, thoughtful relief.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp	Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Jake Tapper	Gore to voters: It's the economy, stupids! Trailing in the polls, the vice president basks in our "prosperity" while promising more.
Salon.com March 16, 2001 Herman Schwartz & Aida Hozic	Who needs the new economy? Bush's bias toward industrial dinosaurs is strangling America's high-tech-driven growth. The stock market's turn away from technology shares reflects the perception that old economy companies which donated more to the GOP will benefit.
Salon.com December 6, 2002 Bill Clinton	Clinton: Democrats "were missing in action" In a major political address this week, former President Bill Clinton bluntly dissected the Democrats' recent electoral losses. Moving to the left, he said, is not a solution -- but fighting back is.
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.
National Defense May 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	What the Latest U.S. Budget Crisis Means for the Future of Defense Even if defense survives significant 2012 budget cuts, the probability is that 2013 or 2014 will be very tough years for military budgets.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 McCormick & Dodge	Bloomberg National Poll Shows Obama at Risk Republicans stand to benefit from voters' deep concern about the economy and federal deficit.
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.
BusinessWeek April 6, 2011 Przybyla & Armstrong	The Audacity of Paul Ryan His plan would privatize Medicare, cut taxes, and cap social spending.
National Defense March 2010 Harvey M. Sapolsky	The Enemy the Pentagon Should Fear Most: Health Care The threat that is most likely to hobble U.S. military capabilities is not an international competitor, but health care.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Howard Gleckman	Wesley Clark: Marching Down the Middle He sets a centrist economic agenda, -- relying on former Clinton advisers.
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Howard Gleckman	The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson	There's Nothing Macho About Soaring Deficits Those concerned about trends in the economy during the Bush Presidency aren't wimps or pessimists but thinking men and, yes, women.
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Michael W. Lynch	Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable...
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?
Salon.com September 18, 2000 David Horowitz	A miracle the press won't report The Democrats may appear to have the upper hand, but George W. Bush is forcing Al Gore into the tightest presidential race in recent history.
Reason February 2004 Tim Cavanaugh	Political Body Snatchers How can you tell the evil party from the stupid party?
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Miller & Gleckman	No Longer the OMB's Invisible Man In an exclusive interview, Bush's new budget director Josh Bolten explains why he says the mammoth deficit is "manageable"
Managed Care July 2002	CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
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.
National Defense March 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Follow the Bouncing Ball of Defense, Federal Budgets: Disoriented Yet? Across the entire spectrum of military programs, affordability has become a predominant theme. As one senior official said, "It is no longer readiness at any cost, it is readiness at best value."
Salon.com February 22, 2001 Jake Tapper	The mystery of the docile Democrats How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops?
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz	Next Stop: Economic Armageddon? What failure to raise the debt ceiling means.
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.