What is the Laffer curve? If you read last week’s column, it’s an unjustifiable justification of supply-side economics. If you’re an economist, it’s nothing more than a graph imagining a hypothetical ...

Goat herding is one of the world's oldest economic professions. It is because goats are excellent at reproduction, and easy to feed and raise. A female goat will on average birth around 2 kids per ...

So what do we think of the Laffer Curve, given that President Trump will be giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Well, certainly it isn’t economic phlogiston. It’s a ...

Last week at the President Ronald Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif., the staff made a nice move. On the occasion of the publication of the first volume of the collected works of the ...

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect. The arithmetic effect is simply that if tax rates ...

The Laffer curve--a bell curve looking like a "McDonald's arch on its side," as the great Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley described it--remains the most recognizable economics graph of ...

Last December marked the 40 th anniversary of the Laffer curve—sort of. Sometime around the week of Dec. 2, 1974, at the Two Continents restaurant at the Hotel Washington, there on Pennsylvania Avenue ...