Topic: George W. Bush

The Case Against Ben Bernanke

The attempt to keep Ben Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve for a second term is one of the most glaring examples of this practice - and one that will have serious negative repercussions for the United States going forward.. When ...
The IFA announced Wednesday that former President George W. Bush will be the keynote speaker for the International Franchise Association 50th Annual Convention. On Saturday February 6th, 2010 at the San Antonio Convention Center George W. Bush will kick of the annual ...
Before the Christmas break, I wrote a post to tie together my thoughts on why I have found the Obama economic program so unsatisfying despite some obvious success in stabilizing the economy. This juxtaposition is galling and undermines any success that the ...
The National Journal asked for reactions to a recent blog post by Greg Mankiw regarding the reasons why US investment has fallen sharply.. I agree with Greg that the dominant empirical fact about investment is its procyclical volatility (the main reason investment ...

On the Limitations of Government

How policy helps frame the debate Where we are headed . Nevertheless, disenchantment with the economic direction has reached a fever pitch and put the Obama Administration on its back foot.. They have favored special interests like big banks and much of ...
The US government closed its 2009 fiscal year with a record 1.417 trillion dollar budget deficit as it poured resources to contain a serious financial crisis that plunged the nation into recession.The deficit was some 962 billion dollars higher than the prior ...

US budget deficit hits record $1.4 trillion

The US government closed its 2009 fiscal year with a record 1.417 trillion dollar budget deficit as it poured resources to contain a serious financial crisis that plunged the nation into recession.The deficit was some 962 billion dollars higher than the prior ...

A 2009 Stimulus Package Report Card

The federal deficit will hit a whopping $1.42 trillion, the highest it has been in the nation's 233-year history, thanks to plunging tax revenues and a high-speed spending spree undertaken by giddy Democrats who had just been given the keys to the ...
As MIT economics professor and former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson points out, the official White House position is that: Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz Nobel prize-winning economist, Ed Prescott Dean and professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School, and ...

The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

The article discusses the origins of a financial crisis affecting the United States in 2009. The actual reason for the crisis, according to the author, is because of government policy during both the Clinton and Bush administrations. One, as outlined in a ...