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 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, ...

Transforming a government-heavy economy into one where the private sector leads not only takes time but also requires a period of detoxification, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The Federal Reserve's quantity-based monetary policy since 2009 enabled stable 2.5% annual real GDP growth through 2025. Quantitative easing and tightening anchored long-term economic expansion, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the federal government now reopened after a six-week shutdown, we’re witnessing some remarkably positive economic developments. The annual inflation rate has dropped to 2.7 percent, while the ...

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 ...

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, ...