Alex Berenson Quotes
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Berenson, Alex. The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America. Free Press, 2003.
She was refuting the claim of many economic conservatives that cutting taxes will always produce economic growth. Actually, in many cases tax cuts do have that effect, but as the counter-example shows, not always and not under all conditions. The Kennedy tax cuts, for example, did produce economic growth.
Responding to an editorial criticizing Malawi's government as a tyranny:
Alex Berenson is an American writer. He was a reporter for The New York Times and has authored several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. His 2019 book Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence sparked controversy, earning denunciations from many in the scientific and medical communities. During the coronavirus pandemic, Berenson has appeared frequently in United States right-wing media, making numerous false claims about the virus and its vaccines.