OPINION EDITORIALS -- Bruce Bartlett
 
 

Bruce Bartlett is a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. His twice-weekly column on economic policy is published in The Washington Times and Detroit News and is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

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December 28, 2000
Tax Selling Causes Weakness in the Stock Market

December 27, 2000
2000 Interest Rate Hikes Mean Harder Landing in 2001

December 18, 2000
Wanted: Three "Faithless Electors"

December 13, 2000
Problems for President Bush

December 11, 2000
The Growing Likelihood Of A Recession

December 6, 2000
Choosing A Treasury Secretary

December 4, 2000
Appointments By New Administration

November 29, 2000
Transition to a Bush Administration

November 20, 2000
Direct Election Versus The Electoral College

November 15, 2000
Bush Should Use Transition To Consider Appointments

November 13, 2000
Be Careful What You Wish For

November 8, 2000
Why The Markets Like Political Gridlock

November 6, 2000
Presidential Qualities And The Candidates' Positions

November 1, 2000
The Importance Of The Presidential Transition Period

October 23, 2000
Tax Cuts For Everyone Versus "No Tax Cut For You!"

October 18, 2000
A Recession Cometh

October 16, 2000
The Truth About Who Benefits From Bush's Tax Cuts

October 11, 2000
How Policies Of U.S. Presidential Candidates Will Affect Stocks

October 9, 2000
Distribution Of Tax Cuts And Tax Burdens

October 4, 2000
Capital Gains And Mutual Fund Investors

October 2, 2000
Income Inequality Rose Sharply Under Clinton

September 25, 2000
Clinton-Gore's Anti-Energy Policies

September 20, 2000
Ralph Nader's Conservative Roots

September 20, 2000 LA Times
Bush's Tax Cut

September 18, 2000
A European Tax Revolt

September 13, 2000
Return Of The Gore Energy Tax

September 11, 2000
Tax Cutting Europeans

September 6, 2000
The Popularity of Free Market Economics

September 4, 2000
U.S. Spending On Prescription Drugs

August 30, 2000
Which Candidate Is Kennedy's Supply-Side Heir

August 23, 2000
Income Mobility Belies Liberal Myth

August 21, 2000
Unemployment, Inflation And The Minimum Wage

August 16, 2000
Nader's A Problem, Buchanan Not

August 14, 2000
National Debt Retirement Poses Difficulties For Monetary Policy

August 9, 2000
Gov. Bush Repudiates One Of His Father's Advisers

August 8, 2000
Gore Would Spend More Than Surplus

August 7, 2000
Workers Prefer More Money To More Leisure

August 2, 2000
Bush's Team Shows What Policies He'll Follow

July 31, 2000
Executive Orders, Or Rule By Decree

July 26, 2000
Hooked On Tobacco Taxes

July 24, 2000
Estate Tax Cuts Are Relatively Small

July 19, 2000
Estate Tax History Versus Myth

July 17, 2000
D.C. Rent Control Should Go, Says Study

July 12, 2000
On The Clinton E-Mail Trail

July 10, 2000
Wall Street Journal: Fraternal Societies Provided Medical Care And Welfare

July 10, 2000
Should Low Tax Countries Be Punished?

July 5, 2000
Liberals Will Blame George W. Bush

July 3, 2000
Signs Of A Tax Revolt

June 26, 2000
Estate Tax Repeal Won't Affect Giving Much

June 14, 2000
California Tries to Tax Internet Sales

June 12, 2000
The Elderly Aren't the Poorest Any More

June 7, 2000
Bill To Replace Death Tax With Carryover Basis For Capital Gains

June 5, 2000
Predicting the 2000 Election

May 31, 2000
The Liberal Case For A Flat Tax

May 29, 2000
Are Higher Interest Rates Necessary?

May 24, 2000
AARP Poll Shows American Optimism

May 22, 2000
Stocks Get Better Returns Than Treasury Securities

May 17, 2000
Drug Price Controls Don't Work In Canada, Either

May 15, 2000
Stock Market Returns Outweigh Risk

May 10, 2000
The Sales Tax Is Obsolete In The Internet Age

May 8, 2000
Growing Wealth Encourages Support For Estate Tax Cuts

May 3, 2000
Cigarette Taxes And Smuggling Rise

April 26, 2000
Academics Envy Think Tanks

April 24, 2000
Did Capital Gains Taxes Cause The Market Fall?

April 19, 2000
Myth of Ecological American Indians

April 17, 2000
The Environment's Best Friends

April 12, 2000
Tax Reform Could Spur Growth

April 10, 2000
Tight Monetary Policy Caused Market Fall

April 5, 2000
Markets Don't Create Bubbles -- But Government Can Prick Them

April 1, 2000
Population Will Fall in Developed Countries

March 29, 2000
Banning Child Labor Could Make Children Worse Off

March 27, 2000
Changing Germany

March 22, 2000
Will Greenspan Prick The "Speculative Bubble"?

March 20, 2000
Tax Deferred IRAs May Raise Federal Revenues

March 15, 2000
White House Report Makes Weak Argument for Minimum Wage Hike

March 13, 2000
Gasoline Rises to its 1982 Price

March 6, 2000
"Tax Gap" Rises And Falls With Tax Rates

March 1, 2000
Internet Purchases Aren't Exempt From Sales Tax

February 28, 2000
Interest Rates, Stock Prices and Budget Surpluses

February 23, 2000
Bush's Views on Antitrust

February 21, 2000
Fed Could Raise Margin Requirements for Purchases

February 16, 2000
Increasing The Size Of The House Of Representatives

February 9, 2000
Is A Recession The Pay-Off Of Paying Off The National Debt?

February 8, 2000, LA Times
There's Room for McCain on the Right

February 7, 2000
Marriage Tax Relief

February 2, 2000
The Stock Market And Economic Growth

January 31, 2000
Repeal The Alternative Minimum Tax

January 26, 2000
What Is Wrong With Candidates Raising Money?

January 24, 2000
Stock Ownership Is Becoming Widespread

January 21, 2000
The Virtues Of Gridlock

January 19, 2000
Will Greenspann Prick The Internet Stock Bubble?

January 17, 2000
Debt Not Rising Precipitously

January 12, 2000
Benefits Of The Y2k Computer Problem

January 10, 2000
A Corporate Tax Increase is in the Offing

January 5, 2000
Openness Of The Internet Has Helped Its Spread

January 3, 2000
Buchanan Is Right On Trade Sanctions

January 2000
The Trouble With Tax Cuts


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