Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Reeves Bartlettis an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth11 October 1951
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Overall, I think what the sales number is telling us is that the consumer is starting to take up some of the slack we're seeing in the trade sector and inventories.
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I think that that's something that the Japanese are very concerned about and they're going to have to do something about in the near term. I think it's good for the world economy to have a strong Japanese economy. And their situation has been not very good for quite a long time.
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Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,
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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
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Why not interview those with opposing views separately and give each more than a minute or two to make their point without having to respond to another person's debating tactics? And why not encourage interviewers to intervene when blatant errors or falsehoods are offered as facts?
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When your team is on a losing streak, you schedule a game with a cream-puff opponent. Then you go with the hot hand.
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We lost the hose, the note, quite a bit of evidence there. It was just one thing after another.
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He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?
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He was the safe choice, somebody with unquestioned qualifications. They needed somebody that everybody, including the financial markets, would react positively to.
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Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer,
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is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those problems.
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The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.
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The significance of that is that there are a number of people that may view Intel as having reached peak margins and will view that as a negative.
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Realistically, it's going to be very, very hard to extend existing tax cuts under current circumstances