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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

The VAT and the Money-Machine Argument

Apr 11, 2010| 

It is an article of faith among conservatives that the value-added tax is a money-machine that must be fought to the death. The Wall Street Journal, for example,... Read »

HCR A Republican Idea?

Mar 28, 2010| 

That’s what some Republican health policy experts are saying now that it’s too late to matter. I bring this up because it relates very much to the point... Read »

AEI’s Muzzled Scholars: An Apology and Clarification

Mar 26, 2010| 

I wrote this morning that I would apologize to the American Enterprise Institute if it turned out that I misheard or misunderstood something I said that David Frum... Read »

The Republicans Who Made Health Care Reform Possible

Mar 26, 2010| 

The Republicans Who Made Health Care Reform Possible – In my Forbes column today I suggest that Democrats may owe their success on health care reform to an... Read »

Did AEI Muzzle Its Scholars?

Mar 26, 2010| 

In my post yesterday about David Frum I recounted a statement he made to me in the course of conversation a few months ago that AEI health experts had been ordered... Read »

Ignorance Is Bliss for the Tea Party Crowd

Mar 20, 2010| 12

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| 

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 »

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