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By Tom Kelly
Jun 16, 2011
This essay focuses on how free market conservatives should address the problem Gov. Mitch Daniels has identified as the “new Red Menace” during the present period of divided government.
By Tom Kelly
Dec 1, 2010
Tom Kelly argues, current economic debates still somehow persist in being “dominated by ideas that were tried and found wanting” decades ago. Why? “One answer,” he continues, is that “the country seems to have forgotten that a small cadre of economists and politicians accurately diagnosed the cause of the malaise of the 1970s as the prevalent economic thinking of the time,” and that during the ‘80s, they set the nation “on a different course,” leading to a quarter-century of virtually uninterrupted growth.
Jun 2, 2009
In this symposium, a roster of American Experiment Fellows provides their perspective on what it will take for Americans and Minnesotans to get serious about this impending entitlement crisis.
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Mar 1, 2009
How Can Conservatism Better Allay the Economic Fears of Working-Class and Middle-Class Americans? is the third in a current series of American Experiment symposia aimed at vitalizing conservatism in Minnesota and the nation.
By Tom Kelly
Dec 2, 2008
The crisis currently gripping our financial markets will end. But it will not end without a “recession,” either as technically defined (two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GDP) or as experienced by the public (a sustained period of lower stock prices, higher unemployment, lower real wages). And it will not end without a substantial restructuring of our economy.
By Tom Kelly
Oct 2, 2008
Following the news about the credit crisis has been frustrating for a “free marketeer,” particularly one who worked in the mortgage industry for seven years. The realities of the situation are very different than the myths our political leaders and the media have been repeating:
Oct 2, 2008
In light of the continuing financial crisis, ten days ago I invited think tank and other colleagues from around Minnesota and the nation to tackle the question: “What’s a free marketeer to think?” Here are two new columns, bringing the running total to 20.
