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...American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank, invited Gramm in Friday to make his case and take some questions. The crowd was heavy on the conservative Washington notables - Cato Institute chairman emeritus William Niskanen, McCain campaign talking head Nancy Pfotenhauer and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz were three that I recognized. But rabble off the street were welcome as well. (Read a critique of Phil Gramm's explanation of the financial crisis...
...such a pivotal figure in sports history, not much is known about Bikila. Perhaps there is little to know. A poor villager who faithfully served the Emperor and was coached by a charismatic Swede named Onni Niskanen, Bikila left neither piles of letters nor much insight into his own dreams and beliefs. After his twin marathon wins, filled with hubris and alcohol, his body betrayed him. He failed in Mexico in '68, was paralyzed in a car accident and died a few years later...
...fundamental idea driving this revolution is that technology and finance have become one and the same. As William Niskanen, chairman of the Washington-based CATO Institute, puts it, "The distinction between software and money is disappearing." And nowhere is that truer than in the world of cold, hard cash...
...Reagan's own Council of Economic Advisers. Murray Weidenbaum says in Rendezvous with Reality, "We are consuming more than we are producing, borrowing more than we are saving, and spending more than we are earning. We are rapidly approaching the time when we have to pay the piper." William Niskanen says in Reaganomics, "The federal budget reflects a fundamentally schizophrenic preference -- for federal spending of about 23% of GNP and for federal taxes of about 19% of GNP. Something must give...
...increase and warning that the federal deficit could throttle the recovery. Months before Feldstein resigned his post "the CEA was frozen out by the rest of the White House," says a senior Treasury official. The CEA has languished without a chairman ever since. The two remaining council members, William Niskanen and William Poole, intend to leave by the end of January...