Feb. 15, 2012 – 9:00 AM ET (Bloomberg) — Phil Gramm, a former Republican senator from Texas, talks about President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal and financial regulations. Gramm, speaking with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop,” also discusses legislation to extend a payroll-tax cut. Watch the...
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Phil Gramm: President’s Budget Proposal is Detached from Reality
Are Americans better off now, than they were four years ago? Phil Gramm, (R) fmr. Texas Senator, and U.S. Policy Metrics senior partner, discusses President Obama's tax and budget policies on CNBC's The Kudlow Report....
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The ‘Financial Recession’ Excuse
The ‘Financial Recession’ Excuse Why did the U.S. recover faster from the panic of 1907 than from the 2008 recession and the Great Depression? By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon Commerce Department data released last Friday show that four years after the recession began, real gross domestic product per person...
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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. ...
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The Budget Sequester’s Silver Lining
Uniting a divided Congress around a major deficit reduction plan was never going to be easy, but it is virtually impossible when the incumbent president campaigns instead of governs and seeks to divide the nation based on how much money people make....
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