George W. Bush’s Nixonomics - Mises Institute

Good article on Mises about the ugly parallels between the Nixon administration and George W.’s

George W. Bush’s Nixonomics - Mises Institute
by Gregory Bresiger

It was a familiar time.

It was a time of a Republican administration waging an unpopular war. It was a war some Democrats said they opposed but seemed to do very little to stop. Inflation was starting to become a problem.

America’s allies thought our president’s economic and political polices were flawed and they were often ridiculed. Anti-Americanism was popular. The Republican president infrequently disagreed with Democrats about the welfare state.

Stories from today’s newspapers? Not exactly.

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