Reaganomics The Economic Legacy and Its Critics

Every serious G.O.P. presidential aspirant invokes the glorious era of Ronald Reagan, to which the country must return. Ignore the fact that ... Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election by a substantial margin, promising to restore American economic prosperity and military prowess. Facing ... Bush, who won the 1988 presidential election. Reagan's 1980 landslide election resulted from a dramatic conservative shift to the right in American politics, ... Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Poland following that government's imposition of martial law. Reagan calls for “New Federalism” in his State of the Union ... When Ronald Reagan stepped down as president on January 20, 1989, he had served eight years. This itself is an extraordinary accomplishment; ... Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan proved to be enduring but is now under ... Ronald Reagan promised to take government off the backs of enterprising Americans. He told voters that government was not the solution to the nation's problems; ... In addition to these crises, Carter faced a mounting ... Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and his vice presidential running mate George H.W. ... At the beginning of Reagan's presidency the US was facing high inflation and high unemployment rates. Reagan's economic policies known as “reaganomics' ' ... Donald Trump's rise to the White House can be traced to President Reagan's economic policies that “hollowed out the middle class.”