Occupation: Historian Birth: October 11, 1951
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machin….
The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox ….
Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even furth….
The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then t….
Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that..
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea..
It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare….
I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty..
The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the….
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there ….
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my ….
So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly ….
The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress fo….
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'..
People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them..