Edward Conard

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  • Read Former White House CEA Chairman Kevin Hassett’s Interview of Ed Conard in National Review
    In National Review, Kevin Hassett, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, asks Ed Conard to defend conservative free market capitalism and how… 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… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO Thomas Philippon Claims the US Has Grown Less Competitive Than Europe. Seriously?! I Take Him to Task in My NRO Review of His Book
    With profits rising, productivity growth slowing, investment middling despite near-zero interest rates, and large competitors gaining market share, proponents of income redistribution insist that an… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO 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… Read More

  • USA Today logo 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… Read More

  • WSJ logo My Op-ed Today’s WSJ: Is the Tax Cut Paying For Itself? By a Mile.
    Tax Reform Is Covering Its Costs Faster growth is on track to outpace debt in the next decade. Is the 2017 tax reform paying for… Read More

  • Read My New National Review Op-Ed: “Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70 Percent Tax Rates” Read My New National Review Op-Ed: “Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70% Tax Rates”
    Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70% Tax Rates Their only justification is to confiscate others’ money. My op-ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal argued that academic justifications for 70… Read More

  • WSJ logo Read My New Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: “The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates”
      The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal would smother investment and innovation, leaving America poorer. Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO: Free-Market Republicans Risk Irrelevance by Ignoring the Concerns of Blue-Collar Voters Read My New National Review Op-Ed: Free-Market Republicans Risk Irrelevance by Ignoring the Concerns of Blue-Collar Voters
    Free-market Republicans must recognize they can’t build a winning coalition without the president’s supporters. In our two-party democracy, agendas without winning coalitions are largely irrelevant.… Read More

  • Ed Conard: ere's What Trump's Critics Still Don't Get About Why He Was Elected Read My New Fox News Op-Ed: What Trump Critics Still Don’t Get About Him
    Edward Conard Fox News January 31, 2018 Democrats wasted no time continuing their nonstop attacks on President Trump after his State of the Union address… Read More

  • Read my new National Review op-ed: “Don’t Subsidize Low-Wage Cities” Read my new National Review op-ed: “Don’t Subsidize Low-Wage Cities”
    Edward Conard National Review Online April 5, 2018 A new study by Harvard economists Benjamin Austin, Ed Glaeser, and Larry Summers, “Saving the Heartland: Place-Based… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO My New National Review Op-ed: Why I Oppose the Rubio-Lee Amendment
    Middle-class tax cuts are already the tax bill’s biggest deficit-driver, and a higher corporate rate would reduce economic growth.  Edward Conard National Review Online December… Read More

  • WSJ logo My New Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: America’s Got Talent, but Not Nearly Enough
    In today's Wall Street Journal, I argue that high-skilled immigration is the only way America can meet the growing cost of retiring baby boomers without growth-killing… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO A Trade Policy That Wouldn’t Leave Low-Wage Workers Behind
    Edward Conard National Review December 5, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump has shown Republicans how to forge a new electoral college majority by energizing blue-collar voters.… Read More

  • What Liberals Don’t Understand About Income Inequality
    Edward Conard Time.com September 13, 2016 Blaming the success of America’s 1% for the slow growth of middle- and working-class incomes leads to policies that… Read More

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  • Read Former White House CEA Chairman Kevin Hassett’s Interview of Ed Conard in National Review
    In National Review, Kevin Hassett, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, asks Ed Conard to defend conservative free market capitalism and how… 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… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO 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… Read More

  • USA Today logo 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… Read More

  • WSJ logo My Op-ed Today’s WSJ: Is the Tax Cut Paying For Itself? By a Mile.
    Tax Reform Is Covering Its Costs Faster growth is on track to outpace debt in the next decade. Is the 2017 tax reform paying for… Read More

  • Read My New National Review Op-Ed: “Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70 Percent Tax Rates” Read My New National Review Op-Ed: “Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70% Tax Rates”
    Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About 70% Tax Rates Their only justification is to confiscate others’ money. My op-ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal argued that academic justifications for 70… Read More

  • WSJ logo Read My New Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: “The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates”
      The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal would smother investment and innovation, leaving America poorer. Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent… Read More

  • Ed Conard: ere's What Trump's Critics Still Don't Get About Why He Was Elected Read My New Fox News Op-Ed: What Trump Critics Still Don’t Get About Him
    Edward Conard Fox News January 31, 2018 Democrats wasted no time continuing their nonstop attacks on President Trump after his State of the Union address… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO My New National Review Op-ed: Why I Oppose the Rubio-Lee Amendment
    Middle-class tax cuts are already the tax bill’s biggest deficit-driver, and a higher corporate rate would reduce economic growth.  Edward Conard National Review Online December… Read More

  • WSJ logo My New Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: America’s Got Talent, but Not Nearly Enough
    In today's Wall Street Journal, I argue that high-skilled immigration is the only way America can meet the growing cost of retiring baby boomers without growth-killing… Read More

  • Ed Conard in NRO A Trade Policy That Wouldn’t Leave Low-Wage Workers Behind
    Edward Conard National Review December 5, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump has shown Republicans how to forge a new electoral college majority by energizing blue-collar voters.… Read More

  • What Liberals Don’t Understand About Income Inequality
    Edward Conard Time.com September 13, 2016 Blaming the success of America’s 1% for the slow growth of middle- and working-class incomes leads to policies that… Read More

  • 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… 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… Read More


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