POLITICO By Edward Conard | December 12, 2012 To accelerate private-sector growth, Republicans will need all their negotiating leverage to minimize taxes on investors by maximizing spending cuts. In a world where the majority of voters garner benefits from spending and see little cost to taxing investors, that’s never been easy. But the current circumstances make it much more precarious. ... Read More
Ed Conard on “Up” with Chris Hayes debating Sen. Sherrod Brown
Ed debates Senator Sherrod Brown and Molly Ball from The Atlantic on what the administration and Congress should do leading up to the fiscal cliff. ... Read More
Ed Conard on “Money” with Melissa Francis
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Former Bain Capital Managing Director Ed Conard, Greenleaf Book Group CEO Clint Greenleaf and Tasti D-Lite CEO Jim Amos on how Obama’s re-election impacts businesses. ... Read More
Ed Conard on Fox Business with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
Ed discusses the effect of President Obama's re-election on the financial markets. ... Read More
Ed Conard on Varney & Co. on Fox Business
Will Romney be able to compromise and work with Congress if he is elected president? Ed discusses how Mitt Romney would advance the administration's agenda if he were elected. ... Read More
Howard Dean & Ed Conard Preview The First Presidential Debate
What's in store when Obama and Romney meet for the first debate? ... Read More
What Obama Didn’t Learn From the 1990s
The Wall Street Journal By Edward Conard | August, 2012 With the prospects for a postrecession economic rebound fading, it has grown increasingly obvious that the United States must eventually raise taxes or cut spending. President Obama claims we can raise taxes on those earning over $250,000, to avoid spending cuts with little, if any, effect on growth because growth was faster in the 1990s and in the 1950s and '60s when marginal income-tax rates were ... Read More