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Creating an ownership society? Social security reform and the temporalities of libertarian rhetoric

Knewitz, Simone - In: Finance and Society 4 (2018) 1, pp. 60-75

. Reformers in the Bush administration particularly targeted Social Security, a popular American institution and signature … the political discourse on Social Security propagated by the Bush administration relied on rhetorical strategies …

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Creating an ownership society? : social security reform and the temporalities of libertarian rhetoric

Knewitz, Simone - In: Finance and society 4 (2018) 1, pp. 60-75

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From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015

This paper explores the potential impact of the Federal Reserve Board’s decision on interest rates on the budget deficit. The first part recounts the history of the 1990s surplus, correcting the widely held misunderstanding that this surplus was achieved by the Clinton administration’s tax...

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2008: THE GREAT CRISIS LESSONS FOR HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC POLICY

GAZDAG, LASZLO - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 8 (2011) 2, pp. 5-9

The trigger for the worldwide crisis that erupted in 2008 was the poorly conceived tax cutting scheme of US President George W. Bush between 2001 and 2003. These tax cuts which then totalled the equivalent of 15% of the USA’s GNP (USD 1.5 trillion) did not result in investments - as expected -...

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