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Entries for June 07, 2007

What (Fred) Thompsonomics Might Look Like

June 07, 2007 04:56 PM ET | Pethokoukis, James |

"Like Reagan without the new ideas," is the slam the New York Observer puts on likely Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson in its new issue, and anyone watching the former U.S. senator and Law & Order actor perform on last night's showing of CNBC's Kudlow & Co. would probably never ask him to play a policy wonk in a film. Thompson mostly stuck to general, tried-and-tested GOP themes during the interview. (Excerpts of the chat can be found at host Larry Kudlow's must-read blog.) About the only aspect of domestic economic policy that seemed to really fire Thompson up was corporate taxes, which he wants to cut—especially after Kudlow informed him that countries in "old Europe" were already slashing theirs.

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Tags: economy | Thompson, Fred

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