Alan Reynolds

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Alan Reynolds
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A Progressive Backlash?
By Alan Reynolds
It suddenly became clear that Hillary Clinton and her advisors intend to run a negative presidential campaign -- not negative ...
June 01, 2007
Immigration Semantics
By Alan Reynolds
Rational discussion of the Senate immigration bill is being stifled and befuddled by a few misused words and phrases that ...
May 24, 2007
Blinder's Blunder
May 10, 2007 |
The Fear Industry
By Alan Reynolds
George Tenet made patently ridiculous claims about WMD in Iraq, while serving as CIA director, and was eventually fired. Former ...
May 03, 2007
What is Income?
April 19, 2007 |
Comparing Bush and Clinton Economies
By Alan Reynolds
A recent Gallup poll found that only 41 percent of respondents approved of Bush's handling of the economy, compared to ...
April 12, 2007
Layoffs in Perspective
By Alan Reynolds
Lou Uchitelle of The New York Times has made a career of writing passionately about the plight of laid-off workers. ...
April 05, 2007
David Stockman: Man and Myth
March 29, 2007 |
Subprime Economics
By Alan Reynolds
When it comes to economic news, the press tends to be biased toward exaggeration and sensationalism. If some event isn't ...
March 22, 2007
Sen. Schumer's Tax Loopholes
By Alan Reynolds
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and a half-dozen freshman legislators, reports the Los Angeles Times, "want to add tax credits ...
March 15, 2007
"Backdating" Bunkum
By Alan Reynolds
During the euphoric high-tech boom of the 1990s, America Online offered my daughter a thousand stock options to recruit her ...
March 09, 2007
Stock Shock
By Alan Reynolds
Sudden drops in stock prices typically provoke more panic among reporters than among investors. When Dow industrials fell by 22.6 ...
March 02, 2007
Politics and Moralizing
By Alan Reynolds
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen laments the fact that candidates are under heavy pressure to tailor their beliefs (or rhetoric) ...
February 22, 2007
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