James Glassman
James Glassman
James Kenneth Glassmanis the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, non-partisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life. The George W. Bush Institute is based within the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas...
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the tax program was designed to provide greater proportional relief for those who earn less income than for those who earn more.
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The thought of oil as a tax doesn't sit right with me. It may be a tax on consumers but it's a plus for producers, ... If you follow the money, my loss is someone else's gain and what starts out as a tax quickly becomes a more balanced picture.
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This sounds like a good idea. It does make sense in much of the world.
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This is adding to the evidence that the economy is going to pick up and I think that we're going to keep seeing a better job picture.
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The report is moderate -- it is not terrible. There is nothing wrong with the economy. What it confirms is that the economy is not out of control.
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This is a view of the economy as we knew it; the world has changed a bit (since then). It's highly likely the Fed will pause for a while.
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After doing the basics, government should get out of the way and let the city develop in a natural and organic way,
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Bankruptcy has a negative connotation to many people, but it's an important part of the streamlining of America. For companies that have gotten themselves down a dead-end alley, it's a way to back up and rethink.
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The extraordinary events of the time make a person. He'll be bigger than life because of that.
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There is a way they come to a conclusion, and it is your job to not constantly be picking fights with it,
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Inflation springs from how intensely resources are used. There is an enormous amount of unused capacity sitting out there, and it takes a lot of growth to absorb that.
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Consumer spending grew almost 4 percent in the spring quarter, before the tax stimulus package. In the third quarter it looks like consumer spending is going to be up 6 percent or so.
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It's reasonable for investors to be concerned with inflation, given six months ago we were talking about deflation. What we're seeing is the purchasing managers are telling us that the costs of some materials are going up. The question is, can it be passed on to consumers?
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Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning speed here. Two years ago no one knew what 'dot com' was.