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...anything you hear at a political convention. It's all a marketing opportunity," said economist Bruce Bartlett, an economic adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, both Republican."Some sectors of the economy are showing...
...how much revenue the Treasury needs to pay for the services Americans demand. In an encouraging sign, White House economic adviser Allen Hubbard recently acknowledged that any bipartisan panel probably would look at taxes. He wasn't saying the...
...borrow. Even before the new Congress was sworn in, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, was warning that failing to raise the debt limit - now $14.3 trillion, or more than 95 percent of last year's...
...Nicole Gelinas; Weekly Standard editor William Kristol; Michael Boskin, a former head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; and Amity Shlaes, who wrote a book castigating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal for worsening the...
...innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine," he said. His chief economic adviser, Gene Sperling, put it more bluntly in a briefing for reporters at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. "Cutting...
...Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a former member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. ``But in the long run, it affects our ability to hold a common civic conversation, and that is a concern...
...Security and savings issues and frees up the next generation to not have to deal with this burden,'' White House economic adviser Gene Sperling told reporters. Indeed, one got the sense the White House feels its plan is both economically and...
...vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. In 2002, President Bush pushed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and economic adviser Larry Lindsey from their jobs in a Cabinet shake-up. Actress Winona Ryder was sentenced to community service as...
...government. Due to speak at Tuesday's conference, titled "Megaprojects of Russia's East," are presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich and the head of Russia's rail monopoly, Vladimir Yakunin, considered to be close to President...
...lawmakers were asked to pump $2.5 million this year into the state's economic future last week by an unlikely economic adviser - the president of the University of Alaska, Mark Hamilton. But Hamilton is no ivory-tower intellectual. Rather...