What Is Supply-Side Economics? The theory of supply-side economics maintains that increasing the supply of goods and services is the engine of economic growth. Additionally, it advocates tax cuts as a ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, supply-side economics offered novel solutions to America’s ills, which included declining productivity, rising inflation, burdensome taxes, and a growing number of citizens ...

In his first term as president, Barack Obama extended the reduction in the top rate of the income tax to 35 percent through 2012, two years past the 2010 expiration date that his predecessor, ...

In May, we lost after a long and full life of ninety years the economist Marina von Neumann Whitman. Among a host of accomplishments, von Neumann Whitman was the first to coin a name, in the mid-1970s ...

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 ...

In a typical market, when demand surges, the logical response is to increase supply. That’s basic economics — especially in real estate. But in long-term care today, that dynamic isn’t holding.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

Northwestern’s conservative students’ group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), hosted economist Arthur Laffer Tuesday evening at Swift Hall to speak on his economic work and theories. Laffer ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a freelance writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, ...

Once a defining principle of conservative governing, supply-side economics has taken some political hits in the last decade. Gerry Baker speaks with Matthew Elliott, co-author of a new book, ...