Not long ago I had a chance to talk once again to David Stockman, budget director under Ronald Reagan and author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America . Here’s the audio , and here’s a YouTube . A very compelling conversation.…
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Today I talked to David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, about a bunch of things, among them the problem with Republicans whose…
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Since the death of Margaret Thatcher, we have heard the two extremes: she was a laissez-faire monster, and she was a laissez-faire hero. I am inclined in the direction of…
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by Peter Schiff This week, while economists should have been closely considering the implications of the actual bankruptcy of Stockton, California, they instead heaped scorn on the perceived ideological bankruptcy…
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Former Reagan budget director David Stockman had a piece in the New York Times over the weekend that I insist you read; it may whet your appetite for his indispensable book . I’m told both Paul Krugman and…
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Pat writes : What Paul achieved in a half day of speaking from the Senate floor is astonishing. There is a new tent pole in the GOP that stands as tall…
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An annual survey of CEOs returns this list : 1. Winston Churchill 2. Steve Jobs 3. Mahatma Gandhi 4. Nelson Mandela 5. Jack Welch 6. Abraham Lincoln 7. Margaret Thatcher 8. Ronald Reagan 9. John F. Kennedy 10. Napoleon Bonaparte All…
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Writes economist George Reisman : The November 30, 2012 National (print) Edition of The New York Times’ main front page story is titled “Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the Reagan ’80s.”…
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