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<title><![CDATA[Michael Boskin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16926.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Boskin]]></description><category domain="16926">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Kamala Harris Sees the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-kamala-harris-sees-the-economy-policy-2024-election-b99e8ee7?st=557ylwz0snbil18</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her proposals would lead to slower growth, more inflation, and no relief from the debt crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Growing Credibility Gap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-credibility-gap-rhetoric-versus-action-by-michael-boskin-2023-02</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Boskin thinks the US president's misleading claims about his administration's record are impeding sound governance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The White House's Adventures in Wonderland]]></title>
							<link>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2022/11/03/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's fraught geopolitical environment requires more transparency and less spin about the hard choices that governments face.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Business Roundtable's Harmful New Standard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/02/05/some_thoughts_on_the_business_roundtables_statement_of_corporate_purpose_104069.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From time to time in the last 150 years, a socialist impulse has taken hold among a significant segment of the U.S. population. This impulse was a primary driver behind the 1880s populists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' movement and among progressives in the 1910s. It was dominant ideology among socialists in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Debt Crisis Is on the Horizon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-debt-crisis-is-on-our-doorstep/2018/03/27/fd28318c-27d3-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.d75d6693ffc6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We live in a time of extraordinary promise. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, 3D manufacturing, medical science and other areas have the potential to dramatically raise living standards in coming decades. But a major obstacle stands squarely in the way of this promise: high and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Dissonance on the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Democratic+Dissonance+on+the+Economy&amp;rlz=1CAACAG_enUS685US685&amp;oq=Democratic+Dissonance+on+the+Economy&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.1278j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding the Global Slowdown Blues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Avoiding+the+Global+Slowdown+Blues</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been five years since the end of the Great Recession, yet President Obama and members of his administration still speak of it as if it were yesterday and play down the anemic recovery. Despite nearly a trillion in fiscal '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'stimulus,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' record deficits, and the Federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Troubles Are Only Beginning]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304403804579260603531505102</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them for another year, and that in any event these people will get better plans through ObamaCare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2016 Disability Insurance Time Bomb]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/15/the_2016_disability_insurance_time_bomb_119219.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Social Security for retirement and Medicare are the best known of the major entitlement programs with looming financial disasters. While some argue about when they will run out of money, their projected 75-year unfunded liabilities grow larger every year and now total $40 trillion, much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Larger Spending Cuts Would Help the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/06/larger_spending_cuts_would_help_the_economy_117298.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's most recent prescription for economic growth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'more government stimulus spending, new social programs, higher taxes on upper-income earners, subsidies for some industries and increased regulation for all of them'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is likely to have the same anemic results as in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Bad Dreaming]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/california-bad-dreaming</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[STANFORD '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' While central governments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' fiscal problems plague many economies, a parallel crisis is enveloping many subnational governments around the world. From Spain to China to the United States to Italy, these governments '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' regions, states, provinces, cities, and towns...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Disconnect From Economic Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577494382148546066.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama should put Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" at the top of his summer reading list. This was clear after listening to his 54-minute list of economic excuses and policy proposals delivered earlier this month on the campus of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.At...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's Greek Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long a harbinger of national trends and an incubator of innovation, cash-strapped California eagerly awaits a temporary revenue surge from Facebook IPO stock options and capital gains. Meanwhile, Stockton may soon become the state's largest city to go bust. Call it the agony and ecstasy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington's Knack for Picking Losers]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577221630318169656.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like the mythical monster Hydra'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'who grew two heads every time Hercules cut one off'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'President Obama, in both his State of the Union address and his new budget, has defiantly doubled down on his brand of industrial policy, the usually ill-advised attempt by governments to promote...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Presidency by the Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576544712358583844.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the economy, presidents, like quarterbacks, often get more credit or blame than they deserve. They inherit problems and policies that affect the economy well into their presidencies and beyond. Reagan inherited Carter's stagflation, George H.W. Bush twin financial crises...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Get Ready for a 70% Marginal Tax Rate]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576443893352153776.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more and more elusive, his timing couldn't be worse.Two problems arise when marginal tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ballooning Budget: Federal Spending in Perspective]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704843304576126421734322078.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The old bromide that citizens elect presidents for protection from other people's congressmen was reversed last November when a Congress was elected for protection from the president. This week House Republicans have been debating how to cut the ballooning budget. After ramming through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Summer of Economic Discontent]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575465462926649950.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's "summer of recovery" has morphed into a summer of economic discontent amid anxiety over the weakening economy. The greater than 4% growth and less than 8% unemployment envisioned by the president's economic team are nowhere to be seen. Almost everything that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economic Fish Stories]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575378751776758256.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A president's most valuable asset'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'with voters, Congress, allies and enemies'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'is credibility. So it is unfortunate when extreme exaggeration emanates from the White House.All presidents wind up saying some things that make even their own economists cringe (often the brainchild of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Needs a More Centrist Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302332578189864.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's $163,000 Tax Bomb]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871911466984927.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamanomics is a Recipe for Recession]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121728762442091427.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Boskin</author>
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