Kevin Hassett
Kevin Hassett
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist. He is best known for his work on tax policy and for coauthoring Dow 36,000, published in 1999. Hassett is currently a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election...
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Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.
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The risk is that the alpha dog (Greenspan) is gone and the pack is going to start squabbling.
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There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,
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Bush's political opponents will have ammunition, but I don't think it will really resonate with voters because the economy is doing pretty well.
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On Sept. 10, there was a strong chance we'd dodge a recession as historically defined. One reason we had dodged a recession was remarkably timely Fed policy. Fed policy has as much chance to work as it ever has.
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It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.
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It will be very important for him to do (that) big public visible speech right after he gets there to let everybody know there's a new sheriff in town, he's got a nice pistol with a lot of ammunition in it, and don't mess with him.
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I think it is very dangerous to enter a new world in which every purchase of an American asset by a foreign entity is scrutinized by the government.
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I think it's the only way it works politically,
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People judge you on whether you won or lost the last game. I think that's why he will play small ball in the coming year.
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Clearly, the administration's favored approach has one and only one attraction. In one year, the tax rate makes it all the way to zero, and hence political operatives can craft speeches about the end of the double tax of dividends.
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The economy's going to be doing well enough that Bush is going to have a big advantage.