Posts Tagged ‘business’
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Getting to Four Percent
Posted on July 21, 2015
Jeb Bush has led the GOP field in talking about growing the economy at 4 percent pace. Most economists think it’s a pipe dream. But as the old joke goes,...
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Work Smarter, Not Harder
Posted on July 10, 2015
I assume Jeb Bush misspoke when he talked about Americans having to work harder to get to a 4% growth rate. Most Americans work pretty hard. Those at the bottom...
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The Gordian Knot of Tax Reform
Posted on May 1, 2015
Our federal tax code is one big Gordian knot. It has so many rules and loopholes and deductions that its complexity strangles the growth of the American economy and causes...
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Reid Tips Balance on Trade
Posted on February 3, 2014
Originally Published on The Hill It was typical Harry Reid: blunt, to the point and unambiguous. “Everyone knows how I feel about this. … The White House knows. Everyone would...
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The Business of Business
Posted on January 16, 2013
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s,...
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