Topic: Ronald Reagan

Clear economic victory eludes Obama as vote nears

Barack Obama does not yet know the identity of his 2012 Republican challenger, but his toughest reelection challenge could be to convince voters the economy is in steady hands.In the two years since Obama took office, the US economy has improved dramatically. ...
When the Great Depression hit the United States in the 1930s, the country was battling the worst economic situation it had ever seen. It enjoyed a strong resurgence in the 1980s under the Ronald Reagan administration in particular. This "build it and ...

Trickle-down economics

The trickle down economic philosophy of President Bush, President Reagan, former Senator Phil Graham, and the Republican party has been the primary driving force that has lead us into the current economic recession that we are facing today. That economic philosophy stated ...
George Soros recently stated that the financial system as we know it, which expanded since Ronald Reagan was president, has collapsed and we now find ourselves in a new era. This fitted well with the theories which Robert Beckman expounded in his ...

World financial crisis

This fitted well with the theories which Robert Beckman expounded in his book "The Downwave", which was published in 1983. In his book, Beckman drew upon the theory that there were long-term cycles of approximately 50 years at work in the economy ...
Nothing will destroy credibility faster than hypocrisy, that?s why when Tea Party partisans harp on about fiscal responsibility it doesn?t carry much weight. The same crowd that put George W. Bush in office and hold Ronald Regan up as the messiah actually ...

Obama Learns Being Right Is Not Enough

The former president has published yet another book, his 25th, which has been greeted with some scorn and plenty of ridicule. Garry Wills, in the reliably liberal New York Review of Books, writes that "Carter is a better man than his worst ...

Government Takeover Is Never A Good Idea

The More Government, The Longer and Deeper The Recession by Michael D. Hume, M.S. If you listen to today's mainstream media, you might think our current government has led us to a "recovery" from a recession that is wholly the fault of ...
It is no accident or manifestation of random luck that the United States is the single greatest economic power ever to grace the planet as a sovereign nation. It is no accident, because our founding fathers had a vision of a nation ...
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 ...
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