At a legendary 1974 Washington dinner, economist Arthur Laffer supposedly sketched his famous curve on a napkin, demonstrating how excessive taxation could reduce government revenue. Now researchers ...

Cheney wasn’t following. So Laffer grabbed a napkin, uncapped a Sharpie, and drew two perpendicular lines and a blimp-shaped curve, halved by a faint dotted line. With the tax rate on the y-axis and ...

When it comes to taxes, many people feel the government can never collect enough. But how can governments determine the “ideal” tax rate? Enter the Laffer curve—a theory that suggests there is an ...

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - An irony about the ludicrously steep import tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on China last month is that they made no sense as taxes - at least if you believe one ...

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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 ...

President Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer, known as the “father of supply-side economics.” (Reed Saxon/AP) Analysis by Elizabeth Popp Berman ...

The unsung hero of the GOP Christmas gift of a tax cut is Arthur Laffer -- the Reagan economist who helped devise the Gipper's tax reductions. Those tax cuts rebuilt the U.S. economy in the 1980s and ...

The Laffer Curve is a method for illustrating the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. But it’s important to realize that there are actually lots of varieties. The… ...

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 ...

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 ...