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Economics

• October 8 -- Bushonomics: Ambitious, Divisive, or a "Hoax"?
Richard Stevenson on Bush's economic philosophy: "His assertion that reducing the top income-tax rate is primarily an effort to help small businesses has been challenged by many economists, who say the White House has exaggerated how much tax reductions in the top bracket flow to small-business owners. 'You can fairly say this is a political hoax,' said [anti-Bush author] Kevin Phillips."

• August 16 -- Bush Deregulates As Iraq Burns
Joel Brinkley’s investigation on regulatory policy in the Bush administration takes the liberal line: “Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, says he does not think the administration could have succeeded in rewriting so many environmental rules, for example, if the public's attention had not been focused on national security issues.”

• April 13 -- Louis Uchitelle: "Time For Another New Deal"
Economics reporter/columnist Louis Uchitelle quotes liberally from Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Ted Kennedy and wonders, "must government play a much greater supporting role in job creation?"