Bruce Bartlett

How will fiscal consolidation decisions by governments impact small businesses? Bruce Bartlett joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how governments are attempting to grow the economy while reigning in budget deficits and debt, and how this will impact small businesses.

Should we worry about the national debt? Bruce Bartlett joins Jim Blasingame to put the national debt in perspective with other national financial indicators, such as the budget, GDP and the national net worth.

What are the best ways to NOT create jobs? Bruce Bartlett joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the policy blunders the government makes and proposes that do not create jobs growth.

As a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bartlett was one of the originators of Reaganomics, the supply-side economic theory that conservatives have clung to for decades. In The New American Economy, Bartlett goes back to the economic roots that made Impostor a bestseller and abandons the conservative dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what’s worked in the past.

Marshalling compelling history and economics, he explains how economic theories that may be perfectly valid at one moment in time under one set of circumstances tend to lose validity over time because they are misapplied under different circumstances. Bartlett makes a compelling, historically-based case for large tax increases, once anathema to him and his economic allies. In The New American Economy, Bartlett seeks to clarify a compelling and way forward for the American economy.

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