Word: wanniski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what does he want? One of Forbes' cheerleaders, the supply-side economist Jude Wanniski, admits that in the end, "sometimes the best thing that could happen might just be that someone else steals your message." In the meantime, "he's having the time of his life," says writer Peggy Noonan, a friend who also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby...
...Seven Fat Years, Bartley calls for a return to the policies that, he says, made the '80s a glorious epoch. Packed with statistics and sometimes eye-glazing arguments, the book tells how Bartley and such fellow supply- siders as economist Arthur Laffer and journalist Jude Wanniski cooked up the recipe for Reaganomics over meals at a Wall Street watering hole called Michael 1. The basic ingredients were tax cuts and a monetary policy capable of producing low and stable interest rates. "As 1982 drew to a merciful close," Bartley writes, "both sides of the Michael 1 prescription were finally coming...
...president of his own Morristown, N.J., consulting firm, Polyconomics, Wanniski has tried to draw attention to his quirky brainchild by bashing a slew of famous journalists of both the left and right while fawning over the Washington Times, the right-leaning newspaper owned by members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. His attacks do not appear to have inflicted serious damage on the careers of either Lewis H. Lapham, liberal editor of Harper's, or William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editor of National Review. But then, Wanniski has been putting out the guide for only six years...
...Wanniski, whose business clients include Michael Milken (who, although in prison, is in regular phone contact with Wanniski), refuses to divulge the identities of the mysterious "media junkies" who help him compile his ratings, but among them there are at least two alumni of Lyndon LaRouche's fanatical groups, as well as public relations flacks, a social worker, a playwright, typists, salesmen, a medical secretary and people who called in to a Denver talk-radio program and asked to be reviewers. A man who has accepted money from felon Milken, has gone on Asian junkets paid for by felon Moon...
...from 29 corporations -- each with a financial interest in Mexico. A more thorough investigation by FAIR staffers might have unearthed the fact that one of those $10,000 contributions was from Milken, and that the report was prepared by Polyconomics, owned by none other than self-coronated media watchdog Wanniski. But nobody's perfect...