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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

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 »

Is Obama Repeating the Mistake of 1937?

Jan 26, 2010| 

With the announcement that Obama plans to freeze non-defense discretionary spending in his new budget, I can safely predict a blizzard of liberal attacks drawing... Read »

Bernanke’s Reconfirmation is a Bit of a Red Herring

Jan 23, 2010| 1

I have to dissent a little bit from my friend Ed. Opposing Bernanke at this point is almost costless for everyone involved. If he is not reconfirmed as chairman... Read »

Are Geithner’s Days Numbered?

Jan 22, 2010| 

Are Geithner’s Days Numbered? Andrew Leonard thinks so. (See here. Also here.) Geithner’s political tone-deafness is becoming a serious liability to... Read »

Health Reform: A Political Mistake?

Jan 15, 2010| 

Premier political analyst Charlie Cook argues today that Obama made a serious error in plunging into health reform until the economy had fully recovered. He says... Read »

Do Lower Food Costs Lead to Higher Health Costs?

Jan 13, 2010| 

I came across some data recently on food expenditure as a share of total expenditures in various countries and thought they were interesting. The percentage spent... Read »

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