Bruce Bartlett, Author and Columnist, The Fiscal Times
September 29, 2011, Holiday Inn – The University of Memphis, 6 pm
Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for The Fiscal Times, an online newspaper covering public and personal finance, and Tax Notes, a weekly magazine for tax practitioners and policymakers. He also contributes a weekly post to the Economix blog at the New York Times. Bartlett was previously a columnist for Forbes magazine and Creators Syndicate. His writing often focuses on the intersection between politics and economics and attempts to inform politicians about economics, and economists about the current nature of politics. Bruce is the author of seven books including the New York Times best-seller, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. His latest book is The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward. His next book, The Benefit and the Burden, is a history and review of issues related to tax reform.