Edward Conard

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Edward Conard

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Waking Up to a Misleading Inequality Report on the Sunday Morning News

If these reporters had winning arguments, they wouldn’t resort to misleading their audiences. Last week, I was briefly featured in one of the major networks’ Sunday morning news programs. The main thrust of the segment was the argument that Americans aren’t doing their fair share to help families who lost their jobs during the pandemic despite a recently published report by the Brookings Institute showing, “government policy effectively countered [the pandemic’s] ... Read More

CBS Sunday Morning Features “The Upside of Inequality”

“CBS Sunday Morning” feature on inequality, which includes Hitler, Marie Antoinette, beatings, starving paupers in coffins, Thomas Piketty, and poverty statistics that don’t account for the trillion dollars America spends helping the poor, gives me 20 seconds to defend capitalism. Here are all the things I said that they chose not to use. https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/bm46pvbgkl?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640   ... Read More

Lies, Damned Lies, and Steve Rattner’s Statistics

Lies, Damned Lies, And Steve Rattner’s Statistics If liberal economists could win the economic debate with honest arguments, they would make them. As President Reagan once joked, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” In his New York Times op-ed, Steve Rattner adds his name to the list of people willing to compromise their reputation to mislead the American people. No serious ... Read More

Innovation Hubs Like New York Don’t “Deserve” Federal Bailouts

With the migration of America's talent to hubs of innovation, like New York, it's disingenuous to claim the hubs subsidize America and therefore deserve bailouts by other states because they pay a disproportionate share of federal taxes. Federalism is based on the notion that some taxation and spending should follow Americans wherever they live. Many of New York's highly taxed millionaires were raised and educated elsewhere and moved to New York at the expense of their ... Read More

Ed Conard Featured in CQ Researcher Report “Inequality in America: Can the Growing Wealth Gap Be Closed?”

CQ Researcher released its latest report “Inequality in America: Can the Growing Wealth Gap Be Closed?” featuring an interview with Ed Conard. Excerpts from the report: On incentivizing risk-taking to grow the economy: Edward Conard, a visiting scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI), calls the wealth gap an inevitable byproduct of an economy that prospers by rewarding innovators and risk-takers. Before the coronavirus struck, the ... Read More

Upside of Inequality

Ben Shapiro Again Recommends Ed Conard’s NYT Bestselling Books

Ben Shapiro again recommended Ed Conard’s New York Times bestselling books, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class (2016) and Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong (2012). https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/row9fnmd4n?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 ... Read More

Predicting How Coronovirus May Impact the Economy on Fox Business

Predicting How Coronovirus May Impact the Economy on Fox Business

Ed Conard joins Stu Varney to discuss the coronavirus’s potential impact on the U.S. and global economy on Fox Business’s “Varney & Co.”  Will the coronavirus send us into a recession? https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/8ep53d6wb1?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 ... Read More

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