Author: Gerry Everding

“This is a person who is driven by his heart, but that will get you into in situations where, if your head doesn’t take over, you’re in trouble.”

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He directed the University’s clinical psychology training program from 1970-1986.

He earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1932 and was a friend and classmate of B.F. Skinner.

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Washington University in St. Louis, host of a presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 8, 2004, offers the media a rich source of expertise on presidential politics and related campaign issues. The University has a strong connection to modern presidential politics, having been selected to host presidential debates in each election since 1992. Presidential debates were […]

“Give me a one-armed economist,” President Harry S. Truman once demanded as he vented his frustration over economic advisors who offer straightforward recommendations, then hedge their bets by tacking on a slew of caveats, often beginning with the phrase “but, on the other hand…” Now, Murray Weidenbaum, the chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s first Council of Economic Advisers, has published a compilation of essays that offers the clear, no-nonsense economic policy analysis that Truman craved. Titled One-Armed Economist: On the Intersection of Business and Government, the book provides a distillation of four decades of Weidenbaum’s writings on key public policy issues.

It gives public-school teachers an opportunity to re-experience the passion of American history as told through primary sources.

A new study shows spending on federal regulatory agencies exceeds the growth of the overall federal budget. Despite President Bush’s vow to limit discretionary spending to 3.9%, the 2005 Budget requests $39.1 billion in outlays for federal regulatory activities, a 4.2% real increase over the appropriated 2004 budget.