Reading for comprehension - try it some time

Post #294,221 by Seamus 10/4/07 9:52:35 PM Reply	Reading for comprehension - try it some time The issues being discussed are your mistaken impression that Reagan caused the dot com era and collapse of the Soviet Union. Lowering taxes wasn't mentioned. But then again, when has irrelevance keep you from posting. Seamus
Post #294,222 by bepatient 10/4/07 9:54:29 PM Reply	Macroeconomics - study it sometime. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #294,224 by Seamus 10/4/07 9:56:00 PM Reply	Wasn't the issue Seamus
Post #294,255 by boxley 10/5/07 9:12:41 AM Reply	reagan had nothing to do with the collapse of the sovs right, it wasnt his insistance on star wars and defence spending that pushed the sov economy over the edge the nobel folks were wrong as well as all contemporary historians and you the mighty seamus was right. the dot com bubble was a product of rising middle class incomes and the 401k both attributable to reagan's tax cuts and rewriting the 401k guidelines. People had money to invest in the market like never before and did so against all common sense. People tend to blame presidents for faltering economies, as Im sure you blame bush for the current one, so good economies should also be "blamed " on the presidents that caused them. thanx, bill Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #294,259 by Seamus 10/5/07 9:28:35 AM Reply	Did you even read the paper by Yegor Gaidar? He was there and he has presented a strong case in his paper. What evidence do you have? On to Reagan: the dot com bubble was a product of rising middle class incomes and the 401k both attributable to reagan's tax cuts and rewriting the 401k guidelines. People had money to invest in the market like never before and did so against all common sense. No, without the baby boomers, a strong dollar and the so-called peace dividend Reagan's tax-cuts would have looked like Bush's taxcuts are looking now. Seamus
Post #294,272 by bepatient 10/5/07 10:01:45 AM Reply	You must have something against full employment and increasing fed collections. The taxes don't look that bad. Its the SPENDING that is the problem. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #294,283 by Seamus 10/5/07 12:40:59 PM Reply	No, its believing that you can cut taxes, increase spending for an ill conceived war and get an economic expansion as happened in the 90s without the same flukes of history as point out by [link\|http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/opeds/2004/bilmes_reagan_wp_021004.htm\|Linda Bilmes] Seamus
Post #294,287 by Seamus 10/5/07 1:05:44 PM Reply	HOW ROBUST IS THE CURRENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION? (new thread) Created as new thread #294286 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=294286\|HOW ROBUST IS THE CURRENT ECONOMIC EXPANSION?] Seamus

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