Supply-side economics, often deemed by opponents as “Trickle-Down” economics, is a macro-economic theory that argues sustained economic growth is spurred primarily by lowering taxes on the wealthy and ...
Nearly a half-century ago, a new economic ideology achieved dominance over FDR’s New Deal. Reaganomics – the friendly moniker for a radical notion called supply-side economics – asserted that slashing ...
Here’s an idea: Let’s try reducing the supply of insurgency in Afghanistan rather than reducing the demand for it. This notion—potentially as important an insight as the Laffer curve—comes from a ...
Over the past decade, a lot has changed in the Republican Party and the American conservative movement. But Reagan-era supply-side economic thinking—lower taxes and fewer regulations unleash private ...
On the matter of Donald Trump’s much lauded (by supply siders, oddly enough) 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it’s anecdotally difficult to find a rich person who actually saw his or her taxes go down. Of ...
The Republican tax bill is noticeably less geared toward the supply-side orthodoxy that has dominated the GOP for a generation, betokening an ongoing shift in the party toward populism that could ...