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...Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Phillips. Twenty years ago, the Nostradamus of Washington correctly predicted the emerging Republican majority. Now Phillips foresees a populist backlash to the greedfest of the Reagan '80s. A provocative analysis based on social science and a cyclical view of history...
Here's an axiom of the new budget math for state officials: '80s into '90s won't go. For much of the past decade state budgets were pushed into the black by a buoyant economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore...
COVER: Lists to sum up the year and chart a new mood -- so long '80s, hello subdued...
...biggest year ever. In Nashville the country-music business is keeping the local economy afloat amid a tide of regional recession. Felix Rohatyn, the fiscal doctor, says the only hope for New York City, laid low by the collapse of the boom-boom Wall Street economy of the '80s, is to turn it into a tourist attraction keyed to entertainment. But the industry is also undergoing profound change in its essential financial and cultural dynamic: moving toward the European and Asian customer as a major source of revenue while moving away from American network television as the creative and economic...
...political pollsters regularly put Barbara Bush's public-approval rating in the 80s, some 30 points above her husband's. There have been no jealousies or catcalls such as those endured by fashionables Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan. Barbara has been visible but never dominating, as Rosalynn Carter sometimes appeared to be. The old pols have always contended that a First Lady could harm but not help a President. Some Republican Party experts, though, believe that if Barbara were not on board, the President's standing would be lower than it is, his leadership less effective...