Kevin Hassett
Kevin Hassett
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist. He is best known for his work on tax policy and for coauthoring Dow 36,000, published in 1999. Hassett is currently a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election...
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I think it's the only way it works politically,
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It will be very important for him to do (that) big public visible speech right after he gets there to let everybody know there's a new sheriff in town, he's got a nice pistol with a lot of ammunition in it, and don't mess with him.
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Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.
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The economy's going to be doing well enough that Bush is going to have a big advantage.
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The risk is that the alpha dog (Greenspan) is gone and the pack is going to start squabbling.
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I think it is very dangerous to enter a new world in which every purchase of an American asset by a foreign entity is scrutinized by the government.
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It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.