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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economists fed figuring
Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.
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We're seeing it already. If you look at Wal-Mart's numbers and strip out the effect of grocery-store sales, there are signs of stress behind the scenes there, ... What many of us are concluding here is that ... because of what is going on with energy, we will probably see a much softer fourth quarter.
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It'll end up being a pretty significant hit. It's easy to forget that these natural disasters destroy wealth. ... You can't make that up.
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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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It's really picking up half of labor pay.
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The economic loss from the one-day demonstration may not be as big as the realization that (illegal immigrants make up) an important part of the economy. It's probably a small number only because it's a one-day event.
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It's setting up for a better performance by the consumer.
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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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The squeeze on consumers is building. Retailers and other folks who deal with the customer are going to feel the customer's pain this fall and Christmas season. We'll be going through a short period of slow growth.
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I get the feeling that the economy was really wanting to move ahead more quickly last year, then hit a bunch of speed bumps. I get the feeling companies are ready to start building their businesses and do lot of what normally happens in an expansion.
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My guess is there will be a bigger stimulus package in the months ahead -- more than $50 billion -- in response to frustration they can't get the economy moving faster.
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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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For every dollar that is coming in is a job going out.
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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.