>don't pay attention to these sorts of econodrones that much. so who
>is jude? what's his background, etc?
Jude Wanniski was a Wall Street Journal editorial writer in the 1970s who is credited with being one of the inventors of supply-side economics. He's very quirky, though; he comes from a family of union organizers and Communists, and still has a soft spot for lefties. I think it was Jude who brought in Alex Cockburn as a WSJ columnist in the 1980s. Jude left the Journal to start Polyconomics, a consulting firm, which is his base for his vigorous prosyletizing on behalf of tax cuts and the gold standard. He had a weird flirtation with Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign last fall, but it didn't last.
Doug