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Exposing Socialism’s Cost to the Middle Class on Fox Nation’s “Deep Dive” I expose the cost of socialism to the middle class, its long term effect on economic growth, and whether libertarianism can win elections with the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady. PART 2 Read More
Debating the Impact of GOP Tax Cuts and How They’re Paying for Themselves on Bold TV Ed Conard joins Bold TV to debate the long term impact of GOP tax cuts on the economy, how they’re paying for themselves, and why they’ll make future generations better off. Read More
Ed Conard Debates Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Growth-Killing Economic Proposals on “Varney & Co.” Stuart Varney and I debate the growth-killing economic proposals of Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker and Andrew Yang, as well as Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to restrict oil drilling on public lands, on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Read More
Successful CEOs Have a Single-Minded Determination to Serve Customers. That’s Not Psychopathy I debate Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ claim that billionaires and CEOs have psychopathic tendencies on Fox Business’s “Making Money” with Susan Li. Successful CEOs have a single-minded determination to serve customers more effectively than competitors. Read More
A Strong U.S. Economy is Capitalism’s Best Defense on Fox Business’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Ed Conard vigorously defends capitalism with David Asman on Fox Business’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.” A 3.8% unemployment rate, rising wages, and a 40% stock market increase since President Trump’s election demonstrate the unparalleled success of American capitalism. Read More
My new National Review op-ed explains why CBO expects the tax cut to pay for itself Is the tax cut expected to pay for itself? Yes — if we use the Congressional Budget Office’s forecast and any economically logical standard, the tax cut makes both current and future generations better off. The CBO now expects the nominal gross domestic product to increase nearly $750 billion more per year by 2020 than in its forecast prior to the tax cut. It originally attributed about one third of that growth to the tax-cut legislation — even by that estimate, the cut more than pays for itself. The CBO… Read More
Read My USA Today Op-Ed: “Tax Cut Law Helps Future Generations” Tax Cut Law Helps Future Generations A one-time increase in gross domestic product that generations can enjoy for years to come is not a 'sugar high' Borrowing to buy an asset that produces more income than the interest expense makes your children richer. The debt doesn’t make them poorer. Without this basic understanding of finance, deficit hawks can’t distinguish deficit-financed consumption from borrowing that increases the economy’s capacity to pay the interest on the borrowed money, including any resulting increase in the interest rate. The latter makes future generations richer,… Read More
Upside of Inequality Available in Ukrainian! The Ukrainian translation of my top-ten New York Times bestselling book The Upside of Inequality is now available! Read More
Discussing How The Upside of Inequality Is Faster U.S Economic Growth and Higher Wages on “Varney & Co.” Stuart Varney and I discuss my top-ten bestselling book The Upside of Inequality on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. What is the upside of inequality? It’s faster U.S. economic growth and American middle-class incomes that are 15 to 30% higher than in Northern Europe and Japan. Read More
Ed Conard Discusses his WSJ op-ed, “The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates,” on Bill Martinez Live Ed Conard discusses his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates," and how unleashing the forces of capitalism drives innovation and middle-class prosperity, on Bill Martinez Live. Read More
Ed Conard Debates the Democrats’ Green New Deal on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Ed Conard debates the long-term cost of the Democrats’ Green New Deal with Neil Cavuto on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.” Read More- Valentine’s Day: This man devised a formula for finding love, and followed it By Justin Rowlatt BBC News What’s the best way to find the husband or wife of your dreams? Think what society tells us about finding the perfect life partner: it’s all about love; follow your instincts; it’s down to fate. Now consider what would happen if you followed similar advice in your job, or even trying to run a company. Imagine telling investors you hadn’t done any market research, had no long-term plan and hadn’t bothered to study business. It wouldn’t inspire confidence, would it? Yet the choice of who… Read More
Ed Explains Why High Marginal Tax Rates Hurt the Middle Class with WSJ’s Paul Gigot on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report” I explain why high marginal tax rates hurt the middle class with Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot on Fox News’s “Journal Editorial Report.” Read More
Ed Debates Liberal Darling of Davos on BBC’s Business Daily I debate the liberal darling of Davos Rutger Bregman on the only true way to increase middle and working class incomes—by not stifling growth and innovation with high taxes. Read More
Ed Conard and Stuart Varney Try to Take the Green New Deal Seriously, But It Isn’t Easy Stuart Varney and I try to take Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal seriously, but it isn’t easy. It would plunge the U.S. into deep recession, hurt middle-class workers and eventually lead to an economy with enormously high-cost energy and much slower growth. Read More
