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How Reliable Are Projections About The Future?

The Politics of Economic Prosperity

What Politicians Try to Do

The Politics of Taxing and Spending

Economic Theories and Political Needs

Monetarism

Keynesianism

Planning

Supply-Side Tax Cuts

Ideology and Theory

“Reaganomics”

The Machinery of Economic Policy Making

The Fed

Congress

Globalization

Spending Money

The Budget

Reducing Spending

Levying Taxes

The Rise of the Income Tax