{"id":697568,"date":"2010-03-22T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/green-room-economist-arthur-laffer-discusses-america-s-financial-future-41200\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:06:20","slug":"in-the-green-room-economist-arthur-laffer-discusses-americas-financial-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697568","title":{"rendered":"In the Green Room: Economist Arthur Laffer Discusses America?s Financial Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.22.10 06:00 AM posted by Brandon Stewart<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;\/p&gt;Yesterday, former Reagan administration economic adviser Arthur Laffer stopped by the Heritage Foundation for a lecture titled, &#8220;&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Events\/2010\/03\/Return-to-Prosperity&quot;&gt;Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status&#8221;. Laffer popularized what has become to be known as the &#8220;Laffer Curve&#8221; which helped demonstrate that increased taxation can be counterproductive in the long-term as it leaves citizens with less resources and depresses economic growth.&lt;spanid=&quot;more-29307&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>After his speech, Laffer sat down for an &#8220;&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.foundry.org\/tag\/in-the-green-room&quot;&gt;In the Green Room&#8221; segment where he discussed the roots of the financial crisis, how President Bush and Obama have mishandled the problem, and what to expect in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/in-the-green-room-economist-arthur-laffer-discusses-americas-financial-future\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/22\/&#8230;ancial-future\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.22.10 06:00 AM posted by Brandon Stewart &lt;\/p&gt;Yesterday, former Reagan administration economic adviser Arthur Laffer stopped by the Heritage Foundation for a lecture titled, &#8220;&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Events\/2010\/03\/Return-to-Prosperity&quot;&gt;Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status&#8221;. Laffer popularized what has become to be known as the &#8220;Laffer Curve&#8221; which helped demonstrate that increased taxation can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vt6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}