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The Mark Skoda Show
Ed on the failure of Dodd-Frank and the ballooning U.S. deficit. Read More
Ed Conard on CNBC’s Kudlow Report
Ed discusses Dodd-Frank and Wall Street regulation. Read More
Ed Conard on Yahoo Finance
Ed discusses his controversial ideas on income inequality. Read More
Ed Conard on Varney & Co. on Fox Business
Ed discusses his new book and the state of the economy. Read More
Ed Conard on Fox Business Channel’s Varney & Co.
Ed debates accusations against Bain Capital and private equity. Read More
Kilmeade and Friends
Ed addresses Obama’s attack on American businesses. Read More
Ed Conard talks with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business
Ed and Lou discuss the impacts of tax hikes on economic growth. Read More
NPR’s The Takeaway
Ed argues for income inequality and the ideas in Unintended Consequences. Read More
Ed Conard on Newsmax TV
Ed discusses why penalizing those who are successful discourages investment. Read More
Ed Conard debates Governor Ed Rendell on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Ed challenges Governor Rendell on Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski. Read More
Ed Conard on CNBC’s Squawk Box hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Ed stands up for innovation and risk taking. Read More- NPR’s “The Takeaway”
In a new book called "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong," Conard outlines why he believes those who occupy the wealthiest percentile in this country are also contributing the most to the economy. Read More 
MSNBC discusses Edward Conard May 5, 2012
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Ed Conard Responds to a New York Times Magazine Article
It's unfortunate, in this highly politicized climate, that we can't have a serious discussion about what's best for the middle class and the working poor. Read More- The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy
In the New York Times Magazine Adam Davidson comments on Ed Conard's new book. Read More
HIGHLIGHTS
A New Year’s Resolution Worth Making
Real Clear Politics By Edward Conard | December 31, 2014 With oil prices plunging below $60 a barrel, the U.S. economy growing at an annualized 5 percent last quarter, and the Dow soaring above 18,000, it's easy to overlook academic research published in 2014 that will likely have a lasting impact on economic debate. In particular, a half-dozen highly credible studies debunked widely-held economic myths. Each of these studies illustrate the need to confront wishful thinking with a great deal of skepticism. The year began with Harvard's Raj Chetty and… Read More
Ed Conard on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
On the show, Jon Stewart and Ed discuss Unintended Consequences and why risk-taking isn't the enemy of a properly functioning economy. Read More
Ed Conard debates Vice President Biden’s former chief economist, Jared Bernstein, on income inequality
At the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in Los Angeles on Monday, a top-level discussion of income inequality, economic mobility, and poverty revealed differing interpretations of the data, their causes, and their implications for public policy. AEI visiting scholar Edward Conard faced off against Vice President Biden’s former chief economist Jared Bernstein. The Bernstein/Conard debate over inequality went something like this: Bernstein suggested that inequality was bad for the bottom of the wage scale, as evidenced by stagnant or falling wages at the lower end of the income distribution, relative to many… Read More
Ed Conard defeats the IQ2 Motion: “Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility”
Despite a highly partisan crowd of voters, Ed defeated the IQ2 Motion: "Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility.” Thirty percent of the voters moved to Ed’s side of the motion—one of the largest swings in the history of IQ2. Opening Statement If income inequality truly impaired mobility, there would be telltale signs: Growing inequality would have reduced mobility. It hasn’t. Even Emanuel Saez, of the liberal Piketty and Saez duo, admits, the chance of a low-income child reaching any higher level of income has increased. Economies with more… Read More
Ed Conard debates Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz
Ed and Joe Stiglitz face off on economics and income inequality. Read More- The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy
In the New York Times Magazine Adam Davidson comments on Ed Conard's new book. Read More 
Please Don’t Soak the Rich
Wall Street Journal review of Ed book, Unintended Consequences. Read More
Ed Conard on Fareed Zakaria
Ed discusses his new book and the value of risk taking for the economy. Read More
Ed Conard debates Alan Krueger on Obama’s economic record and if he’s to blame for slow growth on Bloomberg TV
Given the last five years of economic activity, is Obama the worst president since WWII? Read More
No Role for Fed in Income Distribution
NEW YORK TIMES by Ed Conard | October 27, 2014 The Federal Reserve has neither the mandate to redistribute wealth nor the tools to do it effectively. Should it try, it will likely fail. Were it to succeed, it would likely lower middle- and working-class incomes. Either way, it would violate one of America’s founding principles — no taxation without representation — as well as its mandate to promote stable prices. A blatant political act like this would justify Congressional intervention and jeopardize the Fed’s critically needed independence. A Federal… Read More
Ed Conard on ABC News
Ed argues that innovation and incentives improve the U.S. economy. Read More
Rescuing Subprime Borrowers Won’t Fix the Economy
Fortune Magazine By Edward Conard | June 11, 2014 In their new book, House of Debt, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi make a persuasive argument that a decline in consumption caused by a drop in home prices slowed the economic recovery more than a weakened banking system. Even if banks were strong, they argue, the demand for loans would still be weak. Mian and Amir Sufi blame a sharp increase in savings by highly levered homeowners for the fall off in consumption and borrowing; as a result, the authors urge taxpayers to… Read More