Supply-Side Failure from Theory, to Outcomes, to Danger of Citizens United...
Summary: Republican tax cut/deregulation (supply-side) policy assumes the United States to be a closed economic system where the benefit remains in America when in fact we invest in a global economy....
View ArticleRaising the Debt Ceiling: When Ideology Meets Reality
With dialog on Capital Hill being next to impossible, Senate Minority Leader McConnell has put forth a plan to allow the president to raise the debt ceiling to prevent the United States from defaulting...
View ArticleYou’re Fired!
I have been CEO and founder of a regionally recognized business that built an international client base (multi-million dollar in receipts) as well as a corporate officer in a publicly-held firm. I was...
View ArticleJob Creation and Our Diminished Economic Engine: The Middle Class
Over the past 30 years the vast majority of income gains have gone to the wealthiest in our country. In an economy that is 70% personal consumption, we will continue to experience slow recovery and...
View ArticleWealth and Income Inequality: America’s Moral Crisis
Less than one tenth of one percent of our population is holding a sum of wealth approaching three times the size of the US economy that is anticipated to more than double within the next decade, the...
View ArticleDiscrimination and Job Creation Just Don’t Mix
In defending their tax policies that largely benefit the wealthiest, Republican leadership claims that it is protecting our ‘job creators’. However, Republican legislators certainly paid no heed to...
View ArticleOur Unrepresentative Representation
Introduction The Occupy Wall Street movement has reason to protest. Special interest-driven deregulation policy was at the heart of the recent economic collapse. It has been the “99%” that has paid...
View ArticleThe Common Denominator of Right Wing Policy: Lost Lives
Looking back at my research and writing on conservative special interest-driven policies, a common denominator emerges – without exception. Regardless of the area (opposing reform of our gun markets...
View ArticleRepublican Economic Policy: When Facts No Longer Matter
“…there’s remarkable consensus among mainstream economists, including those from the left and right, on most major macroeconomic issues. The debate in Washington about economic policy is phony....
View ArticleThe Year the GOPs Con Game was Exposed
The GOP’s decision to reinstate tax cut policy in 2001 exposed their hand. It was not about deficit reduction, growing the economy, or job creation. It was about ideology and, no doubt, special...
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