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17 Jan

GOP’s Familiar, Troubling Plan to Torpedo Biden’s...

by Bruce Bartlett
The Republicans’ Familiar, Troubling Plan to Torpedo Biden’s Presidency Fiscally reckless GOP leaders are already laying the...

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29 Nov

Bartlett: GWB Looks Worse in Hindsight

by Bruce Bartlett
Bush Doesn’t Look Better in Hindsight. He Looks Worse. The forty-third president set the stage for a world-historical dimwit to run the...

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15 Nov

The Never-Ending Crisis of the Electoral College

by Bruce Bartlett
  The Never-Ending Crisis of the Electoral College The inane system our founders developed to choose the president is an...

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25 Oct

A Broken Census Can Break Democracy

by Bruce Bartlett
A Broken Census Can Break Democracy The census is best known for determining how we the people are represented. But it also quietly...

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5 Oct

Are Corporations Scamming Their Shareholders?

by Bruce Bartlett
How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers C-suite executives use share buybacks to manipulate stock prices for...

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27 Sep

How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market

by Bruce Bartlett
How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market Milton Friedman’s siren song of profit convinced lawmakers to stop worrying about people and...

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24 Sep

The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed

by Bruce Bartlett
The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed Milton Friedman’s influence on America’s monetary policy blew up the past and mortgaged...

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20 Sep

When the Republican Party Was Sane

by Bruce Bartlett
    When the Republican Party Was Sane President Eisenhower inherited a GOP that looked much like today’s—but he tamed the...

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13 Sep

Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump’s Deranged, Ruinous...

by Bruce Bartlett
Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump’s Deranged, Ruinous Presidency A new book details how the president and his state media partners...

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6 Sep

Reagan, the anti-Trump

by Bruce Bartlett
Trump’s Republican Party Is Erasing Reagan’s Memory His demand for total idolatry requires the GOP rank and file to banish the 40th...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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