Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "You can explain it to a congressman in six minutes, and he can talk about it for six months," Hal Varian, an economist, once noted of the tax ...

Last month, President Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer was a hotshot young tenured economist at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, developed ...

About 50 years ago Art Laffer drew a convex curve on a napkin to illustrate the power of tax cuts to two senior officials from the Ford administration named Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the ...

The godfather of supply-side economics and inventor of the "Laffer Curve" is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP. The economist Arthur Laffer appeared early Monday on ...