Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
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Chuck Schumer, Tax Reform: There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.
Posted on April 12, 2017
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, thinks he is being clever by linking action on tax reform/business tax relief to President Trump’s own tax returns. Here is how the Washington...
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days: there is time to right ship
Posted on April 4, 2017
(Also published in The Hill) “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” Bluto didn’t have his history right in his iconic speech in the famous movie “Animal House”...
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Who will change Washington? Trump
Posted on May 17, 2016
(Also published in The Hill) When I was in college at Marquette University, I took a class on political communications from George Reedy, the former press secretary to Lyndon Baines...
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7 lessons from 2016
Posted on February 2, 2016
(Originally published on The Hill.) I should have listened to my mother. Mom has been warning me about this election for a year now. People are fed up, she says....
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The Predicting the Future Fallacy
Posted on January 22, 2016
When it comes to predicting the future, I am a bit of a skeptic. I am skeptical of political pollsters, I am skeptical of economic forecasters, and I am a...
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