Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Government efficiency panels not new

Government efficiency panels not new

Good luck, Elon Musk; this was tried in the Reagan administration too.

Bruce Yandle
Dec 15, 2024
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Our resident economist, Bruce Yandle, writes of the efforts made by industrialist Peter Grace when he was charged by President Reagan to find ways to reduce the cost and size of government and increase efficiency. Yandle served as Reagan’s Federal Trade Commission executive director from 1982 and 1984 and worked closely with the Grace Commission.

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