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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 | 76

Don’t Cry for Bill Daley

Jan 11, 2011| 

According to press reports, the very wealthy Bill Daley will be forced to sell a number of assets to comply with federal ethics laws in order to become President... Read »

The Very Real Threat of a U.S. Debt Default

Jan 2, 2011| 2

This morning, CEA chairman Austan Goolsbee warned Republicans against playing games with the nation’s credit rating by refusing to raise the debt limit and creating... Read »

The Idiocy of Starve-the-Beast Theory

Nov 27, 2010| 5

A prime reason why we have a budget deficit problem in this country is because Republicans almost universally believe in a nonsensical idea called starve the beast... Read »

Questioning a Payroll Tax Holiday

Nov 19, 2010| 1

Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin have proposed a one-year payroll tax holiday to stimulate the economy. I have previously explained why I think monkeying around with... Read »

Where the Monetary Debate Is Happening

Sep 2, 2010| 

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know what was happening in a particular field such as economics, you read academic journals like the American Economic Review.... Read »

The Gold Conspiracy Never Ends

Aug 30, 2010| 8

I see that my old boss Ron Paul wants an audit of the nation’s gold holdings to make sure the gold is really there and isn’t lead bars covered with gold... Read »

The Problem of Early Retirement

Aug 23, 2010| 2

I have a short piece in the New York Times about those who draw Social Security benefits before the “normal” retirement age–traditionally age 65,... Read »

Am I on the Right or Left?

Aug 11, 2010| 

This is not something I spend much time worrying about, but it seems to matter to Arnold Kling, who criticizes Ezra Klein for locating me on the right side of the... Read »

Have We Reached the Limit to the Welfare State?

Jul 14, 2010| 

Today, Harris released an extraordinarily interesting poll on attitudes toward taxes, spending and deficits in several European countries and the US. In this post... Read »

Tea Party Extremism

Jun 2, 2010| 

One of the problems with analyzing the so-called tea party movement (TPM) is separating the views of its hard-core members, who go to demonstrations and are the... Read »

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