Brother, Can You Spare a Dime They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead, Why should I be standing in line, just wa ...

17 days ago · Squidjiggin' Grounds · squidjig.blogspot.com by Doc Rock ()

From Keith Marsden in Monday's Wall Street Journal: New Evidence on Government and Growth In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan embraced the ideas of a small group of economists dubbed "supply-siders." They argued that lower taxes and slimmer government would stimulate growth, enterprise, harder work an ...

17 days ago · Conservatism Today · conservatismtoday.com/my_weblog by Scott Martin

Tax policy has rightly emerged as a major issue in the presidential debate. When I want to catch up on the important pending legislation and latest talking points, I go to Professor Linda Beale’s website, ataxingmatter. What I like about her approach is that it considers not only the economic, but s ...

20 days ago · Sustainable Middle Class · blog.sustainablemiddleclass.com by John 7 references

Republican point to the consecutive footing of President of the Ronald Ronald Wilson Reagan as a Brobdingnagian winner for supply-side economics. Ronald Wilson Reagan standard a great deal clapping from supply-siders because of his tax cuts for the fertile, and big concern, of class. Yes, revenues d ...

34 days ago · Arlicleza · articleza.com by Drunk Punk 9 references

The Tennessee Democratic Party examines John McCain’ history of opposing supply-side tax cuts and wonders whether his current support for continuing the Bush tax cuts represent a philosophical transformation or Machiavellian political maneuvering: So, is this McCain being disingenuous? Is this McCai ...

71 days ago · Post Politics: Political ... · politics.nashvillepost.com by Kleinheider 89 references

Aaron Katsman www.IsraelNewsletter.com It’s official. Israel is no longer an emerging market. Yesterday, ratings agency Moody’s joined Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, by upgrading its ratings for Israel. The government foreign and local currency bond ratings have been upgraded to A1 from A2, and the fo ...

79 days ago · Israel Opportunity Investor · israelnewsletter.com by Aaron Katsman 86 references

Shanghai American School Economics Student Blog » You Hate Taxes, I Hate Taxes… Let’s Hug- by Alice Su I’m repeatedly amazed at the intelligence and maturity of the young economists here at Shanghai American School. After only nine months of econ instruction, these students already know more about s ...

80 days ago · Welker's Wikinomics Blog · welkerswikinomics.com/blog by Jason Welker 14 references

Of course the fact that John McCain has now decided to be a George W. Bush clone on economic policy as well as on Iraq policy won't make one bit of difference to Chris Matthews, who will continue to refer to McCain as a maverick. After all, true love of the kind Tweety has for John McCain is always ...

81 days ago · Brilliant at Breakfast · brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com by Jill 179 references

Tax Cuts at Center of McCain’s Economic Plan It’s easy to see how politics and sound economic policy may not mix very well; in fact, trying to put the two together usually ends up in contradiction and confusion that puts economically concerned voters in great distress. (Example: Remember that one ec ...

81 days ago by alicesu

ATA and Alhoa airlines have declared bankruptcy, Delta and Northwest have discussed merging to save themselves, and the most successful airline in recent history has been exposed as a menace. These are the successes of deregulation. One dynamic of deregulation that is rarely, if ever, discussed is t ...

93 days ago · Dick Mac (alive!) · dickmacalive.blogspot.com by DM 5 references