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Bruce Bartlett

Affiliation: Forbes

Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for Forbes.com, the online side of Forbes, the nation’s premier financial magazine.

He served for many years in prominent governmental positions including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Deputy Assistant Secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush Administration, and as a senior policy analyst in the White House for Ronald Reagan.

Bruce is the author of seven books, including the New York Times best-selling Impostor: How George W. Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, and thousands of articles in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Fortune and many others. He appears frequently on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN and Fox News, and has been a guest on both the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report.

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Bruce Bartlett's Latest Articles | 41

Ignorance Is Bliss for the Tea Party Crowd

Mar 20, 2010| 

Back when I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh there was one thing in particular he used to say that I agreed with. Over and over he said that liberals defined themselves... Read »

The Washington Post Has No Shame

Mar 17, 2010| 

This morning’s paper carries an op-ed criticizing health care reform primarily on the grounds that it will cost too much. It urges that the plan be sharply... Read »

Steny Hoyer: A Man Worth Listening To

Mar 1, 2010| 

Following are House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s remarks today at the Brookings Institution. I have heard him speak a couple of times on the subject of fiscal... Read »

What Broke Congress?

Mar 1, 2010| 

David Frum has a good post today on how the reforms of the 1970s that were supposed to make Congress work better actually destroyed its ability to function. While... Read »

The Single-Payer Health Debate We Should Have Had

Feb 27, 2010| 2

There’s been a bit of a debate going on in the blogosphere lately about whether the Democrats should have proposed a more limited health reform plan in the first... Read »

A Bad Idea from Dennis Kucinich

Feb 22, 2010| 

Yesterday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich appeared on Fox News plugging his plan to encourage early retirement. I critiqued it in my Forbes column on Friday. Here is the relevant... Read »

Another Dumb Right-Wing Idea: Default on the Debt

Feb 20, 2010| 5

Over the years I have heard a number of conservatives suggest that defaulting on the national debt wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Today Prof. Glenn Reynolds of... Read »

Is BBCT the New VAT?

Feb 8, 2010| 

Anyone who reads the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page knows that it hates the value-added tax. I don’t mean hate the way it hates liberals, government... Read »

Question Time?

Feb 5, 2010| 1

After President Obama visited their conference last week and took questions from them, Republicans have become very keen on institutionalizing the event the way... Read »

The Oregon Tax Hike Vote

Jan 27, 2010| 1

Yesterday, the citizens of Oregon ratified a large tax increase on corporations and the wealthy. The top personal income tax rate will rise by two percentage points... Read »

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