Showing posts with label Brian Wesbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Wesbury. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Brian Wesbury thinks job growth of 2.3 million to 2.4 million is great when we're really just treading water

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Here , in "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs": "[W]e’ve rarely seen a job market this strong. ... Nonfarm payrolls grew 223,000 in May a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Brian Wesbury is back in the excuse-making business for future GDP

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Here , complaining that the upcoming two-year Republican $300 billion discretionary spending extravaganza will crowd out the private secto...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Brian Wesbury is wrong: First rate hike will not be in six months

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Brian Wesbury & Co. here says the first Fed rate hike is coming in six months (June) because "considerable time" has secr...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Brian Wesbury is already making excuses for 2Q2014 GDP

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Here : "The 2.9% drop in real GDP during the first quarter was a fluke caused by a brutal winter and some one-off events. With much of ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Brian Wesbury thinks suspension of mark-to-market rules was a fix

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Brian Wesbury thinks suspension of mark-to-market rules was a fix, here : "The financial system returned to normal once mark-to-market ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Brian Wesbury sounds just like the regime: Dude, that bad GDP report was so two months ago

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Brian Wesbury, here : But regardless of which part of the GDP report accounts for the downward revision, the most important thing ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Brian Wesbury Attacks the VAT Because the Problem is Spending, not Taxation

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Brian Wesbury is very skeptical on historical grounds that adding a VAT can do anything to increase revenues relative to GDP: "[T]here...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Another Voice Wrongly Claiming 'The Money is in the Middle'

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Brian Wesbury at The DC, here : What most people don’t realize is that the U.S. has gorged so much (boosting spending from roughly 18% of GD...