Sep 4, 2012 Former Senator Phil Gramm, (R-Texas), compares recession responses between President Reagan and President Obama. Watch the video...
Read more
Category Archives: Tax Policy
WSJ: Reagan and Obama: A Tale of Two Recoveries
How these two presidents responded to a deep recession reveals polar extremes in policy. And in results. By Phil Gramm as appeared on August 30, 2012, on page A15 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal Only twice since World War II has the U.S. unemployment rate reached 10%:...
Read more
Gramm and Hubbard: What a Romney Recovery Might Look Like
By Phil Gramm and Glenn Hubbard as appeared in Wall Street Journal on June 7, 2012 Given last week’s grim jobs report, it’s now clearer than ever that the November election will be a referendum on the economy. Has the president’s program worked? Does Mitt Romney have a better program...
Read more
Reaganomics and American Character
The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2011, during a four day conference on “Reagan: A Centenary Retrospective”. To access the pdf version click here. ...
Read more
WSJ: The Obama Growth Discount
Had the U.S. economy recovered from the current recession the way it bounced back from the other 10 recessions of the Post-War Period, our per capita Gross Domestic Product would be $3,553 higher and 11.9 million more Americans would now be working....
Read more
WSJ: Echoes of the Great Depression
As in the 1930s, policy uncertainty and hostility to business have retarded recovery. At least this time around the political price for economic failure promises to be swift. By Phil Gramm Oct. 1, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET This may not be your grandfather’s Great Depression, but many aspects of today’s...
Read more
The Washington Times: Bring back deficit knife
By - Cesar V. Conda and Michael J. Solon The Washington Times – Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Federal budget deficits are back with a vengeance. With the U.S. economy showing clear signs of recovery, it is time for Washington policymakers to shelve budget-busting health care reform and “cap-and-trade” legislation and focus...
Read more
WSJ: If You Like Michigan’s Economy, You’ll Love Obama’s
Despite the federal government's growing economic dominance, individual states still exercise substantial freedom in pursuing their own economic fortune -- or misfortune. As a result, the states provide a laboratory for testing various policies....
Read more