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Reaganomics

Obama's Aces Over

Matt Bennett | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, 2010 Elections, Afghanistan, Economy, Progressives, Democrats, Reaganomics, Barack Obama, Midterm Elections, George H.W. Bush, Moderates, Lydon Johnson, Medicare, Health Care, Republicans, Great Society, Politics News
Matt Bennett

Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.

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Debt is Not Money

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Thom Hartmann, Currency, Debt, Money, Reaganomics, Thomas Jefferson Letter, Business News
Thom Hartmann

If followed, the Summers/Geithner policy can have only one of two outcomes: inflation or another, more serious crash. It's possible we could have both.

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Rewind: Looking Back in Harsh Economic Times

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Depression, David Foster Wallace, Legal Aid, Peace Train, Economy, Seven Ages of Rock, Hippies, Bob Dylan, Reaganomics, Recession, Peace Corps, Unemployment, Woodstock, Joni Mitchell, Kahlil Gibran, Aclu, Jetblue, Kahlil Gibran the Prophet, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

What did my generation do? I see all this anger and sorrow in the neighborhood. I can't help but stare.

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A self-help kit for closed minds

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Aig Bonuses, Reaganomics, Economic Crisis, Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Barack Obama, Matt Miller, Home News
Deepak Chopra

President Obama is meeting with resistance to some of his biggest and most daring plans for change. He repeats over and over that he is open to sugges...

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Get on Board or Get Outta the Way

Lance Simmens | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus, Economy, Kevin Phillips, Judd Gregg, Conservatives, Reaganomics, Politics News
Lance Simmens

Is the faux-fiscal responsibility conviction merely a convenient excuse to say no when difficult political decisions require foresight and sacrifice?

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Night of the Long Pointing Fingers

Brian Ross | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, George Bush, Spin, Gop, Saxby Chambliss, George W. Bush, Republican, Bush Interviews, Religious Right, Reaganomics, Dick Cheney, Iraq WMD, Mike Huckabee, Republican Rewrite, Values, Republican Values, Karl Rove, Wmd, Political Pundits, Bush Exit, Gipper, Democrats, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Moral Values, The Blame Game, Bush Administration, Saddam Hussein, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Charles Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, Politics News
Brian Ross

Republican politicians all seem to be trying their hand at historic re-creationism to transform both the history and future of the Republican party into their own image.

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The End of the Republican Majority: Three Things You Need to Watch

Martin Carnoy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Race Politics, Election Reaction, African-American President, Latino Voters, Trickle-Down Economics, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Demographics, Southern Strategy, Barack Obama, GOP Solidarity, President-Elect Barack Obama, Southern Voters, Southern Politicians, Obama Latinos, President Obama, Obamanomics, Election Results, Barack Obama Latino Voters, Reaganomics, 2008 Presidential Election, Gop, Religious Right, Southern Racism, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

The historic 2008 presidential election is over and the main casualty is the Republican Party.

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Midnight in the Garden of Reaganomics

Bennet Kelley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Republican Failed Policies, Barack Obama 2008, Fear Mongering, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Obama Landslide, Infrastructure Repair, Reaganomics, Middle Class, Business News
Bennet Kelley

Fear-mongering may only further prove how out of touch the Republican Party has become with mainstream Americans (or even history itself) as the electorate is increasingly aware.

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David Dreier and the Fall of the House of Voodoo

Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Victoria Wulsin, David Dreier, House of Representatives, California Politics, Financial Crisis, Voodoo Economics, Mean Jean Schmidt, Election 2008, Republican Party, Russ Warner, Reaganomics, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

The financial crisis has caused a seismic shift -- not only has it brought down the house of cards known as Reaganomics but it may also bring down some of voodoo economics' high priests.

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Putting Reaganomics, and McCain, Out of Our Misery

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reaganomics, Mccain, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Economy, Election, Debt, National Debt, Bailout, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

The legacy of Reaganomics is a national debt exceeding $10 trillion. We now have big government and failed markets, all a present from the grave of the former B-list actor.

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Hoping Crisis Spawns America 2.0

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Reaganomics, Economy, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Bailout, Recession, Financial Crisis, Prime Minister Gordon Brown Economic Rescue Plan, Laissez-Faire Economics, Henry Paulson Plan, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

Half of America has been clinging to a self-image that is fast receding: Hearty white folks on the plains instead of brown ones in the cities; a venerated middle class instead of one that is crushed and diminishing; governance that is the envy of the world!

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Some Facts About Spending and Debt, Please?

David Paul | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: National Debt, Presidential Debates, Reaganomics, Tax and Spend, Economy, Business News
David Paul

The argument that Republicans are either the party committed to smaller government or to balanced budgets is purely specious.

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The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Reagan, Phil Gramm, Bush, Economy, Deregulation, Keating Five, Pornography of Power, Reaganomics, John McCain, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Indifference to economics does not explain the prominence of Phil Gramm in the McCain campaign during the U.S. financial crisis. Indifference to the folks losing their homes is a more plausible explanation.

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Reaganomics: As Pompous And Disaster-Ready As the Titanic

Jim Baughman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Subprime Mortgage Rates, Reagan, Economy, Reaganomics, Home News
Jim Baughman

Disaster has struck and some useful lessons may be learned, lessons we learned in the 1930s, and then rejected in the 1980s and 1990s, as too restrictive -- as "socialist" and anti-American.

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Can the Republican Party Begin to Look Forward?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, John McCain, Republican Party, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Mccain Foreign Policy, John McCain Economic Policy, McCain Economy, Ronald Reagan, McCain Middle East, General Election, John McCain Foreign Policy, Reaganomics, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.

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Video: Tax Protest Puts "Me" Over "We"

The Uptake | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, Tax Protest, Jason Lewis, Tax Fairness John Kline, Taxes, Reaganomics, Tax Policy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Trickle Down, Middle Class, Tax Cuts, Home News
The Uptake

Ronald Reagan's tax policy has been a disaster. The middle class earns less and pays more taxes for less service. The wealthy earn more and pay less. There is no trickle down.

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