Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Reeves Bartlettis an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth11 October 1951
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People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.
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The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.
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Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.
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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
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Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,
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I think that that's something that the Japanese are very concerned about and they're going to have to do something about in the near term. I think it's good for the world economy to have a strong Japanese economy. And their situation has been not very good for quite a long time.
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We lost the hose, the note, quite a bit of evidence there. It was just one thing after another.
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He was the safe choice, somebody with unquestioned qualifications. They needed somebody that everybody, including the financial markets, would react positively to.
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He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?
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When your team is on a losing streak, you schedule a game with a cream-puff opponent. Then you go with the hot hand.
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Overall, I think what the sales number is telling us is that the consumer is starting to take up some of the slack we're seeing in the trade sector and inventories.
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The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.
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The significance of that is that there are a number of people that may view Intel as having reached peak margins and will view that as a negative.
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And that worked for quite a while. But it was a shortsighted point of view, ... The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.