Forgive Us Our Injustices
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 December, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org feminist
How would you like to spend Christmas season in prison? Millions of Americans do. Many are imprisoned for victimless crimes, such as marijuana possession. Others are totally innocent. Experts estimate that there are several hundred thousand innocent Americans in prison. Among these many is Christophe Yves Gaynor. In my considered opinion, Mr. Gaynor was framed by a corrupt Arlington, Virginia,…
Read more »Bob Bartley, Bill Roth: Two Who Made a Difference
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 December, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: bill roth washington dc
[See also In Memoriam: Robert L. Bartley, by Peter Brimelow] America lost two tax-cutting heroes last week—former Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley and former Republican senator from Delaware, William Roth. I knew both men well, having worked with Roth and his staff in creating the Kemp-Roth bill and having served on Bartley’s editorial page. Both men did much…
Read more »Memoir & Defense – My Time with Supply-Side Economics
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 December, 2003|Categories: Scholarship Summaries|Tags: role of investment multiplier on economic growth memoire
This article appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of The Independent Review Supply-side economics is a major innovation in economics. It says that fiscal policy works by changing relative prices and shifting the aggregate supply curve,not by raising or lowering disposable income and shifting the aggregate demand curve. Supply-side economics reconciled micro- and macroeconomics by making relative-price analysis the basis…
Read more »The Trentadue Case: A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered
CNN recently reported that “the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victim’s family alleges was murder at the hands of the government.” The victim was Kenneth Michael Trentadue. At 7 AM on August 21, 1995, officials from the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office arrived at the new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer…
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