Edward Conard

Top Ten New York Times Bestselling Author

  • “A full-throated defense of economic dynamism.” - The Wall Street Journal
Upside of Inequality Unintended Consequences Oxford

Bloomberg

Does Alan Krueger’s defense of the Obama Admin’s economic policies add up? You be the judge

Last week, I debated Alan Krueger, President Obama’s former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors on Bloomberg TV’s In The Loop with Betty Liu. I made the argument that the administration pumped trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus into the economy over the last six years, over-predicted the impact stimulus would have on growth, and, as a result, did little else to fix the structural problems slowing the recovery. Because of this, we have suffered five years of ... Read More