The Register’s Brian Calle and John Seiler have both weighed in on our repsonse post about the failure of Reaganomics, better described as “supply side economics” citing the 40th president’s view that placing more money in the hands of Americans…
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My, How Times Have Changed
by Bill Spaulding • • Comments Off
This post is heavily lifted from here. There’s a site called The Smirking Chimp recommended by digby (who is, IMHO, totally cool). Check them both from time to time. The Smirking Chimp has a post about the economic effects of the Reagan…
What Reagan said to schoolkids in 1988
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
HT to our friends at MediaMatters.org, an organization that does an outstanding job of fact-checking the right wing. With the president’s to school kids on the importance of staying in school (stuff you heard from yours parents when you were…
Paul Krugman: Reagan’s Zombie Economic Policies
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Sunday’s New York Times features this terrific column by Nobel-prize winning economist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman who speculates on why Reaganism’s economic promise is a documented failure but still lives on in Conservative strongholds in Congress and State Legislatures.…
Paul Krugman’s NY Times column hits the nail on the head
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
I slept in this morning as I fight off a head cold (always on a Holiday weekend) so I had a later start to my day; Paul Krugman’s column  in today’s NY Times is must reading. Krugman, a Nobel Prize…
