Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow and director of the Four Percent Project at the George W. Bush Institute. She is the author of the best-sellers "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" and "The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy."
Shlaes also wrote a book on German reunification, "Germany: The Empire Within." She was formerly a columnist for the Financial Times and a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. In the early 1990s she served as the Journal's op-ed editor. Prior to that she followed the collapse of communism for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. She is a winner of the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize, and chairman of the jury for the Frederic Bastiat Prize, awarded for writing on political economy.
Articles By Amity Shlaes
Supply-Siders’ Case for Austerity Carries No Shame
The scarlet letter these days is still an A, but it isn’t A for adultery. It is A for austerity.
Gold Standard for All, From Nuts to Paul Krugman
Nut cases. That’s what they are. And if you take an interest in them, you are a nut case, too.
Obama Is Right on Labor’s Past, Wrong on Jobs
New jobs and old cases. Those are the two challenges irking President Barack Obama as he prepares his re-election campaign.
Obama Is a Loser Who Wins, Like FDR in 1936
The loser wins. That’s the way it can go in presidential elections. Especially when the ballot involves a likable incumbent who happens to be failing when it comes to his task of helping the U.S. economy.
College Parents Can Only Watch as Dorm-Room Door Slams
Not one like that room.
Watch Bernanke’s ‘Little’ Inflation Capsize U.S.: Shlaes
A little is all right. That’s the message Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has been giving out recently when asked about the evidence of inflation in the U.S. recovery.
Bernanke Can’t Blame His Sins on Milton Friedman: Amity Shlaes
Ben and Milton are together. Ben is asking Milton a question: “Shall there be action, Master, or depression?” Ben is like Obi-Wan Kenobi to Milton’s Yoda. At first, Milton doesn’t answer. Finally, Milton speaks. “Depression let it be. Deflation it must be.”
Tax Cuts Should Create Growth, Not Junk Spending: Amity Shlaes
Payroll-tax cut equals growth. Consumer spending equals growth. Consumer spending is 70 percent of the economy. All growth is equal.
If U.S. Troops Pull Out, Economic Growth May Slow: Amity Shlaes
Out. Everywhere. Yesterday. Those three words sum up the mood here at home when it comes to American military presence outside U.S. borders.
Clint Eastwood’s Ad Makes Democrats’ Day: Amity Shlaes
Clint Eastwood has been busy fending off critics who posit that the Super Bowl commercial he made for Chrysler represents election-year propaganda for President Barack Obama.
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