The Laffer Curve is an economic tax theory, that—legend says—was written up on a napkin at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. What does the Laffer Curve actually say and why is it the darling of tax ...

Last month, President Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer was a hotshot young tenured economist at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, developed ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "You can explain it to a congressman in six minutes, and he can talk about it for six months," Hal Varian, an economist, once noted of the tax ...

The Laffer Curve is the most famous, non-empirical economic concept of the last fifty years. The idea, famously sketched by then USC-economics professor Arthur Laffer, was that there was some ...

A couple years ago I was interviewing Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, about economic policies and the 2008 election, and, as he told me repeatedly that lower taxes would yield ...

Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the ...

In this 2012 Making Sen$e report, former Reagan White House economic adviser Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin -- just the way he did for the Ford ...

I was stunned to learn this morning that leading economists flat-out don’t believe in the Laffer Curve. I mean, economic historian and liberal favorite Bruce Bartlett calls the Laffer Curve “a ...

The results of last year's Trump tax cut are starting to roll in, and they should not be surprising to students of the Laffer Curve or readers of this blog. As I noted last October, not cutting taxes ...

The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Every ...

Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here’s Tuesday’s query: Comment: As one who ...