END OF PROSPERITY:
How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen
Author: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
Publisher: Threshold Editions
October 2008
Synopsis
Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of
President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen
Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor
Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the
exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the
world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed
by a new president.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s.
Now the rest of the world is following the American economic growth model of lower tax rates, more economic freedom, and sound money. Paradoxically, one country is moving away from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk -- America.
On the eve of a critical presidential election, Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the prosperity many people have come to take for granted, and explain how the policies of Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi can cause America to lose its status as the world's growth and job creation machine.
The End of Prosperity is essential reading for all Americans who value our nation's free enterprise system and high standard of living, and want to know how to protect their own investments in the coming storm.
New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
Author: Burton W., Jr. Folsom
Publisher: Threshold Editions
November 2008
A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today.
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy
Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
Author: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
February 2009
Description:
If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the
small-government, politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you'll
love Tom Woods's Meltdown. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what
led up to this economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government
The Great Depression Ahead:
How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History
Author: Harry S. Dent
January 2009
Synopsis
The first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead. The year 2009 will be the beginning of the next long-term winter season and the initial end of prosperity in almost every market, ushering in a downturn like most of us have not experienced before. Are you aware that we have seen long-term peaks in our stock market and economy very close to every 40 years due to generational spending trends: as in 1929, 1968, and next around 2009? Are you aware that oil and commodity prices have peaked nearly every 30 years, as in 1920, 1951, 1980 -- and next likely around late 2009 to mid-2010? The three massive bubbles that have been booming for the last few decades -- stocks, real estate, and commodities -- have all reached their peak and are deflating simultaneously.
HUD housing and the meltdown
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
November 12, 2008
It's bad enough that for years, at taxpayer expense, HUD has purchased homes in middle class neighborhoods all over the country and put welfare families in those homes, none of whom could afford to purchase or rent them. The down side is that because of what HUD was doing, many of those neighborhoods were ruined by increased crime and loss of property values.
Indeed, now it's not so baffling that, over and above what HUD was doing, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barney Franks, Christopher Dodd, Franklin Raines and others were bent on creating massive affordable housing by putting people into homes they could not afford by intimidating banks and mortgage lenders and manipulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That -- and the refusal to develop domestic energy resources -- is what caused the energy crisis, the overbuilding of new homes, and the spread of the greed disease that brought the economy to its knees.
Why hasn't anyone asked how many homes were involved in this government fraud, failure and disgrace? More importantly, why haven't voters seen the political scam that stared them in the face for so long, and then turned around and re-elected the wrongdoers again and again? Self destruction is a bitter thing to swallow, isn't it?
END OF PROSPERITY:
How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen
Author: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
Publisher: Threshold Editions
October 2008
Synopsis
Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of
President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen
Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor
Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the
exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the
world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed
by a new president.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s.
Now the rest of the world is following the American economic growth model of lower tax rates, more economic freedom, and sound money. Paradoxically, one country is moving away from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk -- America.
On the eve of a critical presidential election, Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the prosperity many people have come to take for granted, and explain how the policies of Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi can cause America to lose its status as the world's growth and job creation machine.
The End of Prosperity is essential reading for all Americans who value our nation's free enterprise system and high standard of living, and want to know how to protect their own investments in the coming storm.
The Forgotten Man
by Amity Shlaes
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
June 2007
It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great-in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today.
Biography
Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on
Foreign Relations and a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg. She has written
for The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an
editorial board member, as well as for The New Yorker, Fortune, National
Review, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. Shlaes is the author of The
Greedy Hand. She lives in New York.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One:
How Corporate Executives and
Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
Author: William K. Black
Publisher: University of Texas Press
April 2005