Robert Waldmann Steve Benen made a graph out of a table from a column by Bruce Bartlett. Bruce Bartlett is an interesting figure — a heterodox conservative who praises Reagan…

Pandagon’s Don’t Pay Attention To Your Wallet…It’s Being Silly takes on this Bruce Bartlett oped by noting: The gist of it is that the middle class is only shrinking because…

This video featuring Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith on Overhyping the Fiscal Cliff is worth watching. Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith join Bill in a…

Back in 2003, Bruce Bartlett criticized the Smetters-Gokhale use of present value analysis but now he seems to like such calculations. To be fair, I have used such calculations, while…

…more wisdom and honesty from Bruce Bartlett: I was asked to testify before a hearing of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. I made it clear to them that I was…

Via CalculatedRisk comes the latest from Bruce Bartlett. Bruce is not predicting a recession but he is concerned that our monetary policy is becoming too tight. While I agree with…

As you may know, Bruce Bartlett has a new book out about the Bush presidency entitled “Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy” which is…

Bruce Bartlett’s December 15, 2009 piece, Inequality: A Problem?, states Bartlett’s agreement with Dalton Conley that “the left should stop worrying so much about inequality per se–its costs are overstated,…

Bruce asks what bubble: It is worth noting that housing prices aren’t just rising here, they are rising worldwide. According to the Economist magazine, housing prices rose 65 percent in…

Via Taxprog blog: Bartlett: Mitt Romney, Carried Interest and Capital Gains New York Times: Mitt Romney, Carried Interest and Capital Gains, by Bruce Bartlett: A key reason for Mr. Romney’s…