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This article discusses the author's view which goes against the implementation of supply side policies as well as how no amount of supply push will fundamentally change the U.S. oil predicament. The author also disputes that no good oil policy will solve the climate problem...Read more to find out what else he has to say about supply-side policies.

"The chain of logic for supply-side policies to work requires the following. Lower tax rates on savings (or on those who save more) leads to higher saving rates. Higher saving leads to more economic investments and greater capital accumulation. Finally, more capital leads to greater economic growth. At each of these steps, however, there is reason to doubt the theory-there are other possible outcomes and conflicting theories. Rep. Ryan's plan is supply-side economics on steroids. His budget for fiscal year 2012 beginning in October would curtail spending, end Medicare as we know it, and reduce taxes on the wealthy while keeping overall tax revenue constant. This can only mean taxes will go up on the "nonwealthy." Ryan boasts that all this pain will be for good. And he is backed by the Heritage Foundation, which predicts-among other fantastical claims-that his budget will add an estimated additional 1 million jobs in 2012. Those 1 million jobs, however, are fictional."

This article is about the advice of leading industry body ASSOCHAM to the government of India. ASSOCHAM says that the most effective way to bring down the inflation rate is to address supply-side issues, rather than to mess with monetary policy. India's inflation rate has increased from 8.31% to 8.98% from last month.

This industry speciifc article discusses the demand by the Steel manufactures for supply side policy in india to combat rising inflation. They also want an end to monetary policy which they feel is not working. The government has stated that inflation is falling and there is growth.

Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988. Eight years later, after serving a term as President George H.W. Bush's housing secretary, he made it onto the GOP's national ticket as Bob Dole's running mate. With that loss, the Republican no longer ran for office, but he stayed in politics. In speaking engagements and a syndicated column, he continued to advocate for the tax reform and supply-side policies -- the idea that the more taxes are cut, the more the economy will grow -- that he pioneered. He also formed a Washington strategic consulting firm, Kemp Partners, after leaving office.

This article is about how the supply side within the United States has changed since the Deepwater Horizon incident last year and the recent earthquake in Japan. These two disasters that occurred within 1 year of each other are estimated to affect the US economy for over 10 years at the least.

In Asia, supply-side constraints were going to ease up after last Autumn. The government is aiming to "rebuild the demand", because it is painfully lacking.

This article discusses how China's personal tax rate is too high and will be lowered in order to create incentives for work. Good example of supply-side policies.

In a new study of federal fiscal policies between 1977 and 1992 entitled "Inequality and the Federal Budget Deficit," the nonpartisan group concludes that the tax cuts enacted in that period enriched the wealthy, increased the tax burden of the middle class, and grossly inflated the national debt. The study concludes that the tax cuts have resulted in lower overall federal tax burdens for only the very poorest and very richest of U.S. taxpayers. Most other families are paying a greater percentage of their family income to the government than they would be if the tax code had remained unchanged since 1977.

This article discusses high tax rates that occurred in the past and the supply-side policies used to eliminate them now and today.

This article talks about the process -that has just began- of privatization of the spanish airport controller, in order to reduce deficit and increase supply; a process that is meeting high opposition among the most traditionalist politicians together with most of the employees of AENA, who until now, where public workers, and had some advantages, less working hours, less possibilities of getting fired; which are now losing.