Senator Grassley’s claim about the New Deal is stark and definitive. Quite simply, in his mind, it did not work. The historians who responded to our request for input disagreed strongly.
Senator Chuck Schumer says corporations used to care; here’s how historians responded
Historians say… Bottom Line: Most historians who responded agree that Senator Schumer is on solid ground, but their caveats and the statements of the historians […]
Mick Mulvaney: Reagan challenged “malaise” and “steered us to a boom”
For merely suggesting that we can get back to that level [3 percent annual growth], the administration has been criticized as unrealistic. That’s fine with […]
Trump: “Job enthusiasm” and “business enthusiasm” has “never been higher”
We have a lot of companies moving into this country. You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level. Job enthusiasm and […]
Rep. Andy Barr: Dodd-Frank led to “weakest economic recovery in 70 years,” lowest workforce participation since late 1970s
Nearly 9 years after the financial crisis, Americans are still stuck in the slowest, weakest economic recovery in 70 years. The percentage of Americans who […]
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter: Dodd-Frank led to “record-setting private sector job growth” and business lending
We have all seen the results of the law in the form of record-setting private sector job growth, millions of new jobs, and historic rates […]
Mick Mulvaney: Obama administration first ever to “not have a 3 percent growth rate”
I went back and looked at some of the economic assumptions that the Obama administration made in its first couple of years, and I want […]
Mick Mulvaney: Three percent growth rate “normal for the history of the country”
We have been attacked, stunningly, by some folks on the left and even in the mainstream who say that that’s an unreasonable assumption. We should […]
Rep. Doug LaMalfa: Consumer Protection Bureau Most Unaccountable Agency in US History
Dodd-Frank was supposed to help lift up our economy; instead, what we got was the slowest, weakest recovery in 70 years. It was supposed to […]
Sean Spicer: Economic Growth Followed Reagan and Kennedy Tax Cuts
As we do that, one of the things that you recognize through a lot of the models here is you’re going to achieve greater economic […]