To be straight up and honest with you, I am very disturbed and upset by what Bartlett said, especially since, I have talked to him, he was one of the very few people, that actually responded by e-mail to questions I asked, and never (I have not talked to him recently) dodged me, giving straight forward honest (thought I did disagree) answers.
I do not know how much he has changed, or if he changed his policies, but e-mail him, and ask him honest straight forward questions, I am curious, to see how he answers, he always gave me (whom he does NOT know, and NEVER met, straight answers).
Its part of why I respected him, he also was great at supporting supply side economics, and giving him opinion, and was never hostile, disrespectful, or nasty when disagreed with.
Though I have to note, he was wrong on who would be the president of the world bank.......but he did agree my choice was the better person.