Washington for Beginners
Washington for Beginners Grovel to senators, be nice to civil servants, and learn how to leak BRUCE BARTLETT Weekly Standard, JAN 01,...
Original Sin: Say’s Law
Original Sin: Say’s Law Bruce Bartlett Jean-Baptiste Say was an important French economist in the early 19th century who...
Bartlett: The Republican Tax Cut Myth
Bruce Bartlett helped draft the 1981 tax cut while on the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp of New York. The Kemp-Roth tax bill was the basis for...
The Triumph of Keynesian Economics
The Triumph of Keynesian Economics Bruce Bartlett September 14, 2016 This essay explains Keynesian economics as...
Donald Trump and Other Republicans Are Unemployment “Truthers”
Bruce Bartlett is an economist who has worked on Capitol Hill, the White House and the Treasury Department. ~~~ Among Donald Trump’s...
Warnings 2
On December 7, Patrick Watson (Senior Editor at Mauldin Economics) tweeted in response to bellicose comments made by Donald Trump. In his...
Thoughts on Trump
By the always great @BruceBartlett: To save myself from answering this question repeatedly, these are the thoughts I have had about...
Will Donald Trump Crack-up the Republican/Tea Party Alliance?
In an interview some years ago, I described the conservative and libertarian movements as all chiefs and no Indians. By this I meant that...