Articles, Study / May 11,2015

Jimmy Pethokoukis, a columnist and blogger at the American Enterprise Institute, recently appeared on my friend Bill Bennett’s radio show. Based on his comments on Bill’s show, Jimmy wrote an article entitled “The right needs to get real on Reaganomics,” claiming that the Reagan tax...

Study / March 27,2015

Summary •  Keynesian policies exacerbated both the Great Depression and Great Recession, while supply-side policies gave us the Roaring Twenties and the Reagan Eighties—the two most prosperous periods of the 20th century. •  The ideal public policies should be: a.) a low rate broad-based flat tax, b.) spending...

Study / December 01,2014

A prosperous economy is created via good economic policy and then getting out of the way to let America’s amazing companies and citizens work, produce and invest. The perfect pro-growth agenda includes: a low rate flat tax, spending restraint, sound money, minimal regulation, and free...

Articles, Book, Study / November 06,2014

PRESS RELEASE San Francisco, November 6, 2014 Pacific Research Institute Launches New Book The Pillars of Reaganomics: A Generation of Wisdom from Arthur Laffer and the Supply Side Revolutions Timeless Ideas for a New Congress The Laffer Center at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) today launched a new book, The...

Study / September 11,2012

Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress are betting the future of the U.S. economy on a gamble that tax rates don’t matter: so raising income taxes, dividend taxes, and capital gains taxes in 2013, won’t hurt the economy. The evidence from the states, however,...