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<title><![CDATA[Brian Wesbury - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15823.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brian Wesbury]]></description><category domain="15823">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jerome Powell and So-Called 'Fed Independence']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/05/jerome_powell_and_so-called_fed_independence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jerome Powell is finished as Federal Reserve Board chairman, but he has time left in his term, so he is sticking around. He would be only the third chair in history to stay, and he says, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'My concern is legal attacks on the Fed, which threaten our ability to conduct monetary policy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Pay Private Banks To Hold All the Cash Fed Printed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/27/wesbury_were_paying_private_banks_200_billion_per_year_to_hold_all_the_cash_the_fed_printed.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economist Brian Wesbury comments on how the Federal Reserve (and eventually taxpayers) are paying hundreds of billions of dollars in interest to private banks to hold money printed during massive balance sheet expansions following the 2008 crisis and COVID.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2023 Graduates, Agents of Change?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/27/2023_graduates_agents_of_change_149291.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been to a high school or college commencement lately, then you know the drill: At some point, at least one speaker will urge the graduates to be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'agents of change,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' suggesting they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d like to see these students make the world a better place through some sort...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Massive V-Shaped Recovery Testament to Strength of Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/20/massive_v-shaped_recovery_testament_to_strength_of_economy_144491.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is nothing normal about the 2020 recession. Massive nationwide shutdowns of "non-essential" businesses caused real GDP to drop at a 31.4% annual rate in the second quarter, the biggest drop since the 1930s. However, as we expected, a V-shaped recovery is being traced out.
On...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Policies That Will Help U.S. Dig Out of Massive Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/09/policies_that_will_help_us_dig_out_of_massive_debt_144153.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When government forces businesses to close (even if it is for a pandemic), it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'taking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the legal sense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  And we can think about $3 trillion in federal bailout spending as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'just compensation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to businesses and employees for that taking.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Basically, we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confusing Risk: Scary Does Not Mean Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/22/miscalculating_risk_confusing_scary_with_dangerous.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus kills, everyone knows it. But this isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the first deadly virus the world has seen, so what happened? Why did we react the way we did? One answer is that this is the first social media pandemic. News and narratives travel in real-time right into our hands.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[COVID &lsquo;Marking to the Models&rsquo; Is Killing the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/07/covid_marking_to_the_models_is_killing_the_economy_143139.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The seeds of the current coronavirus economic contraction were sown during the subprime Panic of 2008.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Back then, short sellers (and those who wanted to blame Wall Street) supported an accounting rule, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mark-to-market,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that caused market participants '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cut the Politicians' Pay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/23/cut_politicians_pay_amid_coronavirus_shutdown_142734.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government-mandated shutdown of business, and the massive drop in economic activity it is causing, may actually do more harm to the United States than the coronavirus itself.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Early estimates suggest the U.S. economy will contract at a staggering 20% annualized rate in the second...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get the Stock Market Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/12/how_to_get_the_stock_market_back.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Election years make cowards of governments.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  How else can you explain the White House response to the challenge of markets in panic over the new coronavirus? The Trump administration has moved into a defensive crouch. Its best ideas seems to be to rail at the Federal Reserve, or to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Fear a 'Hard Brexit']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/26/dont_fear_a_hard_brexit_139580.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The clock is winding down, and the United Kingdom has some major decisions to make. Should it stay in the European Union or should it go?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snatching Slow Growth from the Jaws of Fast Growth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2018/2/12/snatching-slow-growth-from-the-jaws-of-fast-growth</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy continues to be lifted by an incrediblewave of new technology. Fracking, 3-D printing, smartphones,apps, and the cloud have boosted productivity and profits. Yettaxes, regulation and spending all increased markedly in thepast decade, raising the burden of government and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Global Growth Slowdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Behind+the+Global+Growth+Slowdown</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Austerity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the problem. Eurozone governments are spending more now as a share of GDP than before the crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignore All the Bubble Talk, Stocks Are Cheap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2014/1/6/dow-19,500,-sp-500-2,150</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year was the best for equities since 1997. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 26.5%, the S&amp;P 500 was up 29.6% and the Nasdaq was up 38.3%. Despite these outsized gains, and in spite of all the talk of a bubble, we still think stocks are cheap.The one thing we know for sure is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dead Cat Bounce for Socialism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/blog/dead-cat-bounce-for-socialism.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Social Welfare State is dying. Like the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, the cradle-to-grave social welfare experiment must eventually collapse. A system of taxing work and profits, while subsidizing leisure, sloth, and retirement, must eventually fail.The end of the Social Welfare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Obama Kidding?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/09/budget-deficit-obama-opinions-columnists-spending.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Many Better Ways to Spend $1 Trillion]]></title>
							<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/06/unemployment-and-spending/print</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Start the Healing Now]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122282734447293049.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Is a Clear and Present Danger]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910289433951323.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Wesbury</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Change is All Around Us]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121314078329762429.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed's Fed Funds Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951671713654689.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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