Re: tax theory/policy

[Carl Remick]

From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

washingtonpost.com
An Economist On a Mission
R. Glenn Hubbard's Theory Anchors Bush's Tax Plan -- but Can It Survive?

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 22, 2003; Page E01 ...

At once owlish and boyish, Hubbard, 44, has already proven himself a
survivor. He weathered a White House purge of the Bush economic team
that sent the president's first Treasury secretary and his top economic
adviser packing. ...

January 23, 2003

Report: Bush Economist Hubbard to Leave

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:00 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, will step down this spring to return to his teaching post at Columbia University, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. ...

The Journal said administration officials emphasized they weren't trying to oust Hubbard, as happened with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, and would have preferred that Hubbard remain.

[Hmm, I wonder what the real story is here.]

<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-White-House-Economist.html>

Carl

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