Dr. Art Laffer

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Dr. Arthur Laffer, father of supply side economics and economic advisor to Presidents Reagan and Trump.

When he presented Art Laffer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, President Trump said, “Few people in history have revolutionized economic thought and policy like Dr. Laffer. The father of supply side economics; a Yale graduate; a Stanford Ph.D.; the youngest tenured professor of the University of Chicago.” In the years 1972 to 1977 Art was an economic advisor to Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz. Art was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Board. He was an economic advisor to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.