The creation of “it’s the economy, stupid” emerged from the work of pollster Stanley Greenberg. As my former colleague Tommy ...

At the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton famously opined that 'arithmetic' was the magic trick that enabled him to be the last President to provide a budget surplus. This chart paints a ...

the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of the total growth in American wealth during the economic recovery. As the chart shows, it's nothing new for the super-rich to reap the lion's share of the ...

It is true that the U.S. economy performed to general satisfaction during Bill Clinton’s presidency. But most of the big economic news of the 1990s had little or nothing to do with Bill Clinton ...

Entering the White House in 1993, Bill Clinton was caught between campaign promises to reduce the deficit and to deliver a middle-class tax cut. Economic advisers including Robert Rubin convinced ...