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Since the publication of his New York Times top-ten bestselling book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), Edward Conard has made over 100 television appearances in which he has debated leading ... [Read More]
2 Graphs Show Enormous Δ in the Success of US vs Euro Companies
From the Economist: ... [Read More]
Is the Stability of the Presidential Prediction Market Evidence That It Is Failing?
According to Andrew Gelman and David Rothschild,"right now, it appears that prediction markets have arrived at a paradoxical place: Their reliability, the very source of their prestige, is causing them to fail... The prediction market prices for the ... [Read More]
Tetlock's Work on the Hopelessness of Accurate Forecasting Reaffirms the Value of Free Enterprise
In his lunch with Philip Tetlock, Robert Armstrong concludes: "Tetlock's demonstration that strong commitment to theory or ideology makes poor forecasters —and that even best forecasts come to resemble guesswork when they reach more than a few years ... [Read More]
Startups Increasingly Flock to Silicon Valley to Gain Access to Talent, Expertise, and Venture Capital
The WSJ's Christopher Mims reports that "after peaking at $84 billion in 2000 [venture capital funding] fell to $18 billion in 2003 before surging back to $68 billion in 2015." Venture capital funding doesn't include growth in R&D spending by ... [Read More]
Urban Institute Reports Decline of Middle-Class Comes Entirely From Rising Incomes
Despite reports that income inequality is hollowing out the middle class, a new study by the Urban Institute shows that all of the decline comes from income growth. Since 1979, the population living in households earning more than $100,000 per year ... [Read More]
Does the Threat of Inflation Stimulate Growth?
Tyler Cowen wrote a thoughtful piece expressing skepticism about the economy's responsiveness to inflation and how some economists are now just assuming, with little evidence, that growth would be highly responsive to a helicopter money drop. In ... [Read More]
Why New York Thrives on Creative Destruction When Others Have Failed
The Manhattan Contrarian wrote an interesting piece chronicling the creative destruction that has continually transformed the New York City economy. He points out that New York lost nearly all of the million manufacturing-related and 400,000 ... [Read More]
"The Life Project" Shows Govt's Limited Ability To Change Impact of Social Status on Success
The Wall Street Journal review of the book, The Life Project, caught my eye today. The book summarizes the 6,000 research papers and 40 books chronicling the 70,000 Brits born in 5 cohorts (1946, 1958, 1970, 1991, and 2001) tracked over the course of ... [Read More]
Did Pres. Obama Revive Elkhart, Indiana?
A friend, Tom Myers, wrote this email to me: "Did you see President Obama taking a victory lap in Elkhart, Indiana the other day? How ironic. Thirty percent of the jobs in Elkhart are related to RVs. RVs have benefited from three things: Cheap oil ... [Read More]
Constraints to Growth
In a recent blog post, Michael Pettis notes that while more invested capital per worker increases productivity in developing economies, economies have varying abilities to invest capital effectively. He labels this ability: "social capital ... [Read More]
Trump Needs More Than a Large Increase in White Voter Turnout
David Wasserman on FiveThirtyEight claims that even if Trump achieves historically high 1992 white voter turnout (i.e., the year Ross Perot ran), he will still lose the election because, surprisingly, it only swings Florida, Nevada, and Ohio ... [Read More]
Wage Growth Stronger Than It Appears
Wage growth is 3.5 to 4% per year—on par with prerecession wage growth—according to the San Fran Fed. Median wage growth is pushed down when baby boomers with higher-than-median wages retire and workers with lower-than-median wages are hired. Wage ... [Read More]
DiCaprio and the Hypocrisy of Moral Licensing
Real Clear Politics by Edward Conard May 06, 2016 This week, Time Magazine released its list of the top 100 Most Influential People and placed Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover of its magazine for the personal example he sets on climate change. How ... [Read More]
According to Betfair the Primary Is Over
According to Betfair, following Trump's victory in Indiana, the 2016 GOP primary is over. ... [Read More]
GAO Misleadingly Claims 70% of Companies Pay No Taxes
The GAO recently published a misleading headline that claimed: "from 2006 to 2012, at least two-thirds of all active corporations had no federal income tax liability." While true, that's because most businesses are unprofitable. According to analysis ... [Read More]
Does the Republican Party Stand a Chance in November?
Ed Conard previews the upcoming New York primary election and the economic platforms of the candidates on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." ... [Read More]
AEI's Idea Makers Podcast: The Importance of Credibility for Success in Finance and Politics
Ed Conard sits down with Toby Stock on AEI's Idea Makers podcast to discuss his book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong and why building credibility is vital to a successful career in finance and ... [Read More]
The Tricky Math Behind GOP Delegates
Ed Conard analyzes the outcomes of Mega Tuesday's GOP primaries with Carl Quintanilla and Jon Fortt on CNBC's Squawk Alley. ... [Read More]
Will Senate Republicans Block President Obama's SCOTUS Nominee?
Ed Conard joins Carl Quintanilla and Jon Fortt on CNBC's Squawk Alley to discuss the Senate's refusal to consider President Obama's SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland. ... [Read More]
Who is winning the Republican primary? According to online betting, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are.
Who is winning the Republican primary? According to online betting, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are. ... [Read More]
According to Betfair, Romney's speech shaved 10% points off Trump's chances of winning GOP nomination
According to Betfair, Mitt Romney's speech from earlier today shaved 10 percentage points off Donald Trump's chances of winning the GOP nomination without hurting the GOP's chances of winning the presidency. ... [Read More]
Betfair Odds Show No GOP Candidate Can Claim to be More Electable in November
According to The Gamble, 60% of Republicans vote for the most electable candidates. According to Betfair, as each candidate's chances of winning the Republican nomination have changed, it has had little, if any, effect on the Democrats' chances of ... [Read More]
More Evidence that Incentives Drive Work Effort
Harvard's Raj Chetty et al just released a new study on the effects of childhood environment on adult employment showing low workforce participation rates for adults who were raised as poor children—even lower for men than women. My first thought ... [Read More]
New Study Estimates Upwards of 20% of Economic Studies are Fudged
It's well understood that statistically significant results in scientific studies are not what they appear to be. Statisticians commonly set the bar for statistical significance at 95%—i.e., the probability that results are not random. But if ... [Read More]
Graphical Comparison of Global Debt and Equity Markets
Many stylized economic models assume labor and capital are the only constraints to growth—studies on the effect of immigration on wages for example. Modeling the wrong binding constraints lead to mistaken conclusions. In my upcoming book, The ... [Read More]
Who Is Voting For Donald Trump?
Trump voters are less religious and socially conservative than one might assume. The Wall Street Journal's new interactive graph lays out the views and backgrounds of voters supporting a Republican Party split into three groups--social conservatives ... [Read More]
An Indication of the Effect of Immigration on Unskilled Wages
Harvard economist, George Borjas, presents a graph summarizing his controversial finding that the Mariel boatlift of 10,000 Cuban refugees in 1980 significantly depressed the wages of non-Hispanic Miami high school dropouts. Borjas's findings rebut ... [Read More]
Ponnuru Contributes to the Myths Surrounding the Financial Crisis
Scott Sumner described Ramesh Ponnuru's NYT's op-ed yesterday, which blamed the Fed and tight money for the financial crisis, as "the single best piece on monetary economics to appear in a major publication since the Great Recession began...." I ... [Read More]
Prime Working Age Workforce Participation Rate
Eight years after the last business cycle peak, the prime working age workforce (25 to 54 year olds) is 3% smaller than it would have been at 2007 participation rates. View the Bureau of Labor Statistics data here. ... [Read More]
Evolution of the U.S. Economy Since 1980
A fascinating interactive graph worth bookmarking showing the evolution of the U.S. economy relative to the rest of the world since 1980. For example, the U.S. accounts for 70% of the world's venture capital. Find The ... [Read More]
Fear of Big Government at an All-Time High
69% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, see big government, and not big business or big labor, as the greater threat to America, up from 53% when President Obama first took office, according to Gallup. Courtesy of Marc Thiessen ... [Read More]
Goldman Sachs: Millennials Are Poised to Reshape the Economy
Who are the Millennials and how will they reshape the global economy? Goldman Sachs's Global Investment Research team created an interactive data story that compares the Millennials—the biggest generation in U.S. History—to prior ... [Read More]
What are the Odds of Becoming a Millionaire?
Education and race matter in calculating the odds of being a millionaire in the U.S. according to recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Read more about the study on Bloomberg.com ... [Read More]
Harvard's Borjas Defends Study Indicating Immigration Impacts Wages
Whether immigration reduces wages is highly debated in economics. In an economy where waiters wait on waiters (i.e., where the economy serves the economy on average), the addition of another waiter has little if any effect on wages. Under those ... [Read More]
Study Finds Significant Uptick in Fertility Rates for Highly Educated Women
According to VOX, two researchers have found that the fertility rates of the most highly educated U.S. women have risen significantly since 2000 although their fertility is still below that of the least educated women. Read the full report here. ... [Read More]
New Evidence Shows Minimum Wage Law Is Hurting Employment
In his blog last week, University of Michigan economist and AEI scholar, Mark Perry, noted that "U.S. cities that have raised their minimum wage to $10 an hour or more in 2015 have seen…job gains fall to multiyear lows at restaurants, hotels and ... [Read More]
Trump & Cruz Have Big Problems with Independent Voters
In today's Wall Street Journal, Stanford University Professor David Brady says Trump and Cruz have big problems with independent voters. In a recent YouGov polling of 5,000 independents, 51% said they "would never vote for" Donald Trump. 41% said ... [Read More]
The Trump Factor in the GOP Presidential Race
Ed Conard compares the GOP presidential polls to historically accurate online betting websites with Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV's "Markets Live." ... [Read More]
Ed Conard Defeats IQ2 Motion "Central Banks Can Print Prosperity" in a Landslide Victory
Squaring off against former IMF chief economist and MIT professor, Simon Johnson, Ed Conard persuaded 60% of the undecided audience members (to Johnson's 15%) that the $3 trillion printed by the Federal Reserve has had little if any stimulatory ... [Read More]
Is Inequality Killing the American Dream?
Ed Conard discusses income inequality and how risk-taking and innovation drive the economy with Michelle Fleury on the BBC's "Talking Business." Is Inequality Killing the American Dream? (Part 1) Is Inequality Killing the American ... [Read More]
Will Trump Dominate Tonight's GOP Debate?
Ed Conard discusses tonight's GOP presidential debate with Betty Liu and Pimm Fox on Bloomberg's "Markets Live." ... [Read More]
Does the U.S. Need More Visas For the Highest-Skilled Foreign Workers?
Ed Conard discusses whether Donald Trump's immigration plan is good for the U.S. economy on Fox Business News's "The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan." ... [Read More]
Can Hillary Rally Conservative Voters with Biz Tax Credit Plan?
Ed Conard discusses Hillary Clinton's plan for business with The Hill's Managing Editor Bob Cusack and Richard Fowler on Fox Business News's "Intelligence Report with Trish Regan." ... [Read More]
Hillary Clinton Misdiagnoses What Ails the Economy
Ed Conard talks with Betty Liu about Hillary Clinton's new economic plan and the GOP's 2016 presidential candidates on Bloomberg TV's "Markets Live." ... [Read More]
Which presidential hopefuls will be best for growing the economy?
Ed Conard discusses which 2016 presidential candidates will be best for creating jobs and growing the economy on Fox News's "Risk & Reward." ... [Read More]
Success of the 1% Has Not Caused Middle Class Stagnation
Ed Conard sits down for a conversation on income inequality with The Manhattan Institute's VP for Policy Research Howard Husock and senior fellow Scott Winship at the 2015 National Meeting of the Adam Smith Society. ... [Read More]
Will Fed Regulations Cost Taxpayers $1.88 Trillion?
Ed Conard and Fox News's Liz MacDonald discuss whether the cost of federal regulation will carry a $1.88 trillion price tag for taxpayers on Fox Business News's "Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton". ... [Read More]
Democrats block President Obama's fast-track trade deal
Ed Conard and Sen. John Thune discuss President Obama's proposed legislation that would give him the ability fast-track the international trade deal on Fox Business News's "Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton". ... [Read More]
Rahm Emanuel win foreshadows inequality fight w/in Democratic Party
Ed Conard discusses Rahm Emanuel's victory in the Chicago mayoral race along with Bloomberg View's Francis Barry and Matt Miller on Bloomberg's "In The Loop." ... [Read More]
Does the success of the 1% hurt the middle & working class?
Ed Conard discusses income inequality with Matt Miller on Bloomberg's "In the Loop." ... [Read More]
Has an MIT PhD debunked Piketty's inequality argument?
Ed Conard discusses a challenge to Thomas Piketty's findings on the causes of rising inequality from MIT PhD Matthew Rognlie with Matter Miller on Bloomberg's "In The Loop." ... [Read More]
Is the 1% to blame for stagnate wages?
Ed Conard discusses whether the 1% is to blame for stagnate wages with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business News's "Risk and Reward." ... [Read More]
Is Rand Paul more than a philosophy?
Ed Conard discuss Senator Rand Paul entering the 2016 presidential race with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business News's "Risk and Reward." ... [Read More]
Why Have Wages Stagnated Despite Employment Growth?
Ed Conard explains to the BBC's Linda Yueh why middle class incomes stagnated despite 50% growth in U.S. employment since 1980. ... [Read More]
What's the Price of Inequality?
Ed speaks with Robert Peston, BBC economics editor, to counter common income inequality misconceptions. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2. ... [Read More]
Does the Pursuit of Status Drive Growth?
After Scott Sumner surveyed, with aghast, the uselessness of the leather-bound backgammon sets and other luxury goods on the FT's HowtoSpendit website, he couldn't help but post an argument for progressive consumption taxes. Sadly, his argument ... [Read More]
Obama SOTU: Clever Politics, Bad Economics
Ed sits down with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business News to discuss President Obama's 2015 State of the Union speech. ... [Read More]
How the Government Can Tackle Cyber Security
Ed joins Cedric Leighton and Cheri McGuire to discuss Washington's plan to tackle cyber threats on Fox Business News with Deirdre Bolton. ... [Read More]
D.C.'s Tax Inversion Problem & Presidential Politics
Ed sits down with Bloomberg's Trish Regan on "Street Smart" to discuss the tax inversion threat to Washington and the GOP's 2016 contenders. ... [Read More]
Does the GOP already have a proven candidate for 2016?
Ed discusses the 2016 election and why Mitt Romney should run for President on Kilmeade & Friends. List to the interview here. ... [Read More]
Election 2016 & the fate of the middle class on Bill Martinez Live
Click here to listen to the full interview. ... [Read More]
A New Year's Resolution Worth Making
Real Clear Politics By Edward Conard | December 31, 2014 With oil prices plunging below $60 a barrel, the U.S. economy growing at an annualized 5 percent last quarter, and the Dow soaring above 18,000, it's easy to overlook academic research ... [Read More]
Sizing up the world economy & presidential politics
Ed Conard sizes up the global economy and discusses presidential politics on Fox Business News' Risk and Reward with Deirdre Bolton. Part I Part II ... [Read More]
Krugman Steps Closer Toward Conceding Case Against Income Inequality Is Mistaken
Earlier this week Paul Krugman took another step closer to conceding that the case against income inequality is mistaken. He said, "I'm actually a skeptic on the inequality-is-bad-for-performance proposition. … [I'm] worried that the evidence for ... [Read More]
Pitfalls for hedge-funds in venture capital
Ed discusses with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business News. . . Part I Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Part II Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com ... [Read More]
Mohamed El-Erian joins Elise Gould to continue yesterday's IQ2 debate: Does income inequality impair upward mobility?
Krugman Ignores Buyers Surplus and the Motivational Value of Status
In today's "The Showoff Society" Paul Krugman continues to blame the drive for status among America's most successful workers for abundant waste that yielded stagnant wage growth. Yesterday, he failed to recognize the drive for status fuels ... [Read More]
Does Rat Race Waste Resources? Krugman and I disagree
Paul Krugman demonstrates a laughable misunderstanding of economics in his blog post "Having It and Flaunting It" yesterday. He mistakenly claims "status competition…is a zero-sum game … where a lot of our economic growth has simply been wasted, ... [Read More]
Tax Inversion Primer w/ Simon Constable on WSJ Live
Brookings Study Indicates Education and Parents' Marital Status Have Large Impact on Mobility
Brookings recently published a they-owe-the-public-better report on income inequality. One of the report's headline conclusions shows, without any qualification, that growing up African American and poor (bottom quintile of earnings) is worse, from ... [Read More]
Data Show Pay Increased for Middle Class Workers Since 2000
An op-ed by David Cay Johnson points out that people earning between $100,000 and $400,000 per year captured "an astonishing" 75 percent of all (real) pay increases between 2000 and 2012. Twenty-two of those 75 percentage points stem from the fact ... [Read More]
Social Security Significantly Impacts Distribution of Wealth
In a post about a survey released this month showing Americans are much less concerned about income inequality than Europeans, despite similar perceptions about the distribution of income in their countries, Paul Krugman described Americans as ... [Read More]
Americans Much Less Concerned about Inequality than Europeans
A survey released this month by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research finds Americans are much less concerned about income inequality than Europeans. Despite similar perceptions about the distribution of income as the Germans and French, ... [Read More]
America Spends 25 Percent More per Capita on Social Welfare than Any Other County
Despite popular misconceptions, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data confirms America spends more on social welfare than any other country—$13,500 per capita in 2009. This is nearly 25 percent more per capita than the ... [Read More]
Studies Debunk Evidence that Higher Minimum Wages Don't Hurt Low-skilled Employment
An op-ed in today's WSJ debunks shoddy evidence used by President Obama to claim that raising minimum wages increases growth. If raising wages truly stimulated demand, then larger increases should produce more growth. The research found the opposite: ... [Read More]
Does Economics 101 Apply to Immigration?
Robert VerBruggen, a writer for RealClearPolicy, has written a pithy summary of Harvard labor economist's, George Borjas', recently published tough-minded book, Immigration Economics. VerBruggen writes: "[Borjas] lays out evidence that ... [Read More]
New IMF Study Casts Doubts on the Value of Increased Infrastructure Spending
A study published recently by the International Monetary Fund, "Public Investment as an Engine of Growth," examines the impact of accelerated infrastructure investment on growth and productivity in "126 lower- and middle-income countries." It finds ... [Read More]
With Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business, Ed Conard takes a look at investment opportunities in Africa
Ed Conard analyzes trends affecting private equity with Deirdre Bolton on Fox Business
Fed Data Shows Less Lending, Not More Saving, Factor in Recession
In their book, House of Debt, Princeton economist Atif Mian and University of Chicago economist Amir Sufi claim reduced consumption by subprime homeowners occurred when home prices fell caused the Great Recession. Larry Summers thought the book was ... [Read More]
Ed Conard discusses why stifling tax inversion takes the pressure off of corporate tax reform with Maria Bartiromo on Opening Bell on Fox Business
Krugman Ignores Failed Keynesian Predictions
In his blog post yesterday, Paul Krugman claimed: "We have a pretty good model of aggregate demand, and of how monetary and fiscal policy affect that demand. … And it remains true that Keynesians have been hugely right on the ... [Read More]
June Employment Worse than it Appears
Mort Zuckerman's claim in today's Wall Street Journal—that an increase of 288,000 jobs in June is the result of a 523,000 drop in full-time employment offset by an 800,000 increase in part-time employment—motivated me to look more carefully at ... [Read More]
Does Alan Krueger's defense of the Obama Admin's economic policies add up? You be the judge
Last week, I debated Alan Krueger, President Obama's former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors on Bloomberg TV's In The Loop with Betty Liu. I made the argument that the administration pumped trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus into the ... [Read More]
Ed Conard offers economic advice to President Obama on "Betty in the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
June jobs report: Is the economy really recovering? Ed debates with Alan Krueger and Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV
What's housing market's impact on the economy? Ed discusses with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business
Ed Conard addresses the impact of high corporate tax policies on Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox Business
Summers and Krugman Justify Stimulus Using Mian and Sufi's Hard-to-Believe Theory Subprime Savings Caused Great Recession
Larry Summer and Paul Krugman cite Atif Mian and Amir Sufi's hard-to-believe theory of the Great Recession to justify fiscal stimulus. In their book, House of Debt, Mian and Sufi claim falling home prices caused highly levered subprime households to ... [Read More]
Piketty Overlooks the Circumstantial Nature of Economics
Despite the implausible economic theory underlying Capital in the Twenty-First Century (as addressed here, here, here, and here), Thomas Piketty nevertheless makes a valuable contribution by questioning Simon Kuznets' theory that income becomes more ... [Read More]
Brad DeLong disingenuously counters criticism of Piketty's farfetched "2nd Law"
P.S. Brad DeLong complains Krusell & Smith use an unrealistically high illustrative depreciation rate in their critique of Piketty's "Second Law." The rate is irrelevant to Krusell & Smith's central point--that the mathematics underlying ... [Read More]
Economists Krusell & Smith find "Piketty's second law…misleading, and…not fundamental"
Alex Tabarrok reports on a recent paper by Per Krusell and Tony Smith that articulates the problem with Thomas Piketty's so-called "Second Law of Capitalism" a problem that Larry Summers claims stems from Piketty "misreading the literature by ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
In this exclusive interview, one of Stewart's longest, Edward Conard discusses his book Unintended Consequences and argues that risk-taking isn't the enemy of a properly functioning economy. ... [Read More]
Financial Times raises concerns about integrity of Piketty's data but effects likely inconsequential
First, liberal economists damned Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, with a stream of faint praise by applauding the quality of Piketty's data while admitting to concerns about the quality of his economic logic. Then, Larry ... [Read More]
Ed Conard reviews Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century and its critics on Bloomberg TV's In the Loop with Betty Liu
The Economist reports on the failure of European innovation
The Economist reports: "Venture capital in Europe has delivered returns of just 2.1% a year since 1990, according to Thomson Reuters, making it perhaps the worst investment class outside Japan (American VC managed around 13%)." The article ... [Read More]
Scott Sumner makes a noteworthy point about taxes
"You cannot put the burden of a tax on someone unless you cut into his or her consumption. If the Obama tax increases did not cause Gates and Buffett to tighten their belts, then they paid precisely 0% of that tax increase. Someone else paid, even if ... [Read More]
Marty Feldstein denounces Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century in the WSJ
Marty Feldstein denounces Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century in The Wall Street Journal: "His [Piketty's] thesis rests on … a flawed interpretation of U.S. income tax data …. The … problem with Mr. Piketty's conclusions about increasing ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debunks income inequality myths with the Wall Street Journal's Mary Kissel
Serious liberal economists are damning Piketty with faint praise
Finally, an economist on the left, Larry Summers, comes out and admits that the emperor, Thomas Piketty, has no clothes. In truth, Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, and Robert Solow have already damned Piketty with faint praise. Like all serious reviewers, ... [Read More]
Unintended Consequences accurately predicted the slow recovery
John Cochrane questions the accuracy of Keynesian economics by showing the failure of the Fed's and CBO's Keynesian models to accurately forecast the slow recovery. He ends a blog post by asking, "…the question of the day really should be why we have ... [Read More]
Shouldn't valid economic theories produce accurate forecasts?
In a series of blog posts, John Cochrane presents two graphs showing how both the Fed and CBO have continued to make significant mistakes in forecasting large Keynesian rebounds, and have slowly revised their forecasts downward. The downward ... [Read More]
Larry Summers savages Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Larry Summers' review of Thomas Piketty's book has finally arrived, and he savages it. Frankly, it's hard to find any aspect of Piketty's theory that escapes Summers' disdain. Here are excerpts from Summers' review: "I have serious reservations ... [Read More]
New evidence eviscerates relevancy of Piketty's claim capital has grown at expense of labor
Until Piketty responds effectively to the just-released paper, "Does Housing Capital Contribute to Inequality? ... [Read More]
Ed debates who the strongest Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election is with Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard debates Vice President Biden's former chief economist, Jared Bernstein, on income inequality
At the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Los Angeles on Monday, a top-level discussion of income inequality ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates why raising the wage is bad economic policy with Trish Regan on Bloomberg TV
Piketty and Krugman Admit the Laffer Curve Is Real
Real Clear Politics By Edward Conard | April 23, 2014 Liberal and conservative economists disagree sharply over the extent to which a lower marginal tax rate motivates talented workers to take the risks and suffer the consequences necessary to ... [Read More]
Renowned Labor Economist, Claudia Goldin, Finds Cumulative Career Hours Worked Explains the Gender Pay Gap
Just in time for today's "Equal Pay Day," one of Harvard's renowned labor economists, Claudia Goldin, examines the gender wage ... [Read More]
Debate with Robert Reich on the latest budget released by Rep. Paul Ryan on Ronan Farrow's MSNBC Show
Ed Conard defeats the IQ2 Motion: "Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility"
Despite a highly partisan crowd of voters, Ed defeated the IQ2 Motion: "Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility." Thirty percent of the voters moved to Ed's side of the motion—one of the largest swings in the history of ... [Read More]
The New York Times reports there are only 500,000 full-time minimum-wage jobs—the same number the Congressional Budget Office expects a raise to $10.10 will destroy
In yesterday's New York Times' Economix blog Bruce Bartlett reports ... [Read More]
Brookings Inadvertently Finds the Poor Have Higher Incomes in Cities Where the Rich are Richer
A recent report by the Brookings Institution inadvertently shows the poor have higher incomes in cities where the rich are richer. ... [Read More]
Recent Study Finds Minuscule Losses on AAA-Rated Tranches of Subprime Mortgages
Pervasive misunderstandings about the causes of the financial crisis have significantly slowed the economic recovery. The public mistakenly believes banks ... [Read More]
CBO Cuts Its Forecasted Growth of the Economy Another 3 Points
Lost in the controversy surrounding the CBO's estimate that the Affordable Care Act will motivate 2.5 million low-wage workers to quit working at the taxpayers' ... [Read More]
IMF Finds Income Redistribution at European Levels Likely Hinders Growth in Advanced Economies Like the U.S.
A recently published cross-country comparison by the International Monetary Fund that shows income inequality slows growth ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates the impact the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is having on the economy on Bloomberg TV's "In the Loop"
On Bloomberg TV's "In the Loop" Ed Conard explains the data featured in the recent CBO report
Part II: CBO Report Shows Increasing the Minimum Wage Hurts Marginal Workers
The most damning aspect of Tuesday's CBO report on the minimum wage may not be its acknowledgment that raising the minimum wage is a highly inefficient way ... [Read More]
On Yahoo's "Daily Ticker" Ed Conard argues raising the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) will help the working poor more than raising the minimum wage
Part I: CBO Report Shows Increasing Minimum Wage Inefficient at Reducing Poverty
The CBO published a worrisome analysis of the minimum wage on Tuesday. The study estimates that, in the short run ... [Read More]
Will Obamacare's subsidies increase unwed births?
Last week, the CBO warned that Affordable Care Act's subsidies will motivate 2.5 million low-wage workers to quit work at the expense of taxpayers--a 3-fold increase from its ... [Read More]
Contrary to liberal claims, CBO concludes that labor participation will drop because of ACA's subsidies, not from the freedom healthcare exchanges offer
Sadly, many liberals (way too many to name) are heralding a new CBO report that predicts 2.5 million full-time low-wage workers will choose to stop working as a result of increased subsidies they'll receive from the Affordable Care Act. These ... [Read More]
Companies don't pay CEOs to work hard; they pay them to bear risks necessary for improvement
In his NYT op-ed from several weeks ago, Joe Stiglitz reveals his misunderstanding ... [Read More]
Mankiw shows rich parental resources have almost no impact on income inequality
Greg Mankiw reports that Chetty/Saez's recent study on income mobility finds that "91 percent of the variance [in a person's income] is unexplained by [their] parents' income." "Based on adoption studies," Mankiw speculates that ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates with Rep. Jim Himes on President Obama's refusal to work with Congress to pass legislation on Betty Liu's "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard addresses how the Fed's policies have affected economic volatility on Betty Liu's "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard debates Phil Mattingly on the path forward for Congress and the president after the State of the Union on Betty Liu's "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard debates Austan Goolsbee on President Obama's proposals to solve income inequality on Bloomberg TV
Mankiw explains why it's illogical to raise the minimum wage rather than the earned income tax credit
Advocates for raising the minimum wage complain that the wage hasn't kept pace with inflation. They intentionally overlook a logical shift in policy to the earn income tax credit (EITC), which supplements the wages of low income workers with cash. ... [Read More]
Chetty & Saez distance themselves from prior claims that government expenditures financed by progressive taxation reduces poverty
Lost in the coverage surrounding Chetty & Saez's newly released paper, which debunks the claim that income mobility is declining in the U.S., are the provocative conclusions in their companion paper, "Where is the Land of Opportunity? The ... [Read More]
Brookings reports decline in income inequity
A new Brookings report, "Income Growth and Income Inequality: The Facts May Surprise You" reports that after-tax income inequality declined between 2000 and 2010, and likely declined through 2012 (the most recently reported numbers). While it's ... [Read More]
Income Inequality is Not the Problem
If the rich succeed at the expense of others, growing income inequality in the U.S. should drive down poor and middle class incomes relative to the other high-wage ... [Read More]
Alan Blinder Wages War on the Facts
Alan Blinder claims "in the late 1970s, the U.S. labor markets began to turn ferociously against workers with low skills and education," that "technology was clearly the major villain," and that "the U.S. government piled on" by "[waging a] war on ... [Read More]
Response to Austan Goolsbee on inflation
Austan Goolsbee, former chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, makes a contradictory argument for loose monetary policy in a WSJ column on January 10th, 2014. Goolsbee claims that it's time for "critics of quantitative easing" who ... [Read More]
Ed Conard analyzes the impact of the past three Federal Reserve chairmen on "In the Loop" with Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard with Dagen McDowell and Connell McShane on Fox Business advocating for the Fed supporting innovation over inflation
Larry Summers & The Causes of Slow Growth
In his December 15th Financial Times blog post, Larry Summers continues warming to the notion that the slow recovery stems from permanent structural problems and not a temporary Keynesian lull in demand. Presumably, then, optimal economic policy ... [Read More]
Shamus Khan Declares War on the 1%
Shamus Khan declares war on the 1 percent in The New York Times claiming economics is zero sum and that U.S. growth has not trickled down to the middle class despite the U.S. economy and employment having grown twice as fast the high wage economies ... [Read More]
The Minimum Wage: A Case Study in Unintended Consequences
President Obama has called for an increase in the minimum wage to give poor workers a pay increase. Here's why it's well-intended but misguided: 1. Two-thirds of the adults living in poverty don't work,[1] so raising the minimum wage does little ... [Read More]
Declining U.S. Poverty
A recently released study by a number of Columbia University professors, extends an approximation of the Census Department's recently developed supplemental poverty measure (SPM) back in time to show that poverty has declined dramatically in the ... [Read More]
Ed Conard addresses reasons behind sluggish economics growth with David Asman on "After the Bell" on Fox Business
Equity, Not Inflation, Drives Innovation and Growth
Real Clear Politics By Edward Conard | November 27, 2013 It has finally dawned on left-leaning economists like Paul Krugman and Larry Summers that the U.S. economy is not suffering from a temporary lull in demand but rather from a structural ... [Read More]
Yellen Should Focus on Innovation, Not Inflation
Bloomberg View By Edward Conard | November 21, 2013 President Barack Obama has shown a determination to redistribute wealth by increasing government spending, despite unsustainable deficits. We shouldn't be surprised if Janet Yellen, the ... [Read More]
Ed Conard discusses why Janet Yellen and the Fed's monetary policy should focus on innovation with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard addresses how Janet Yellen, the nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, could affect monetary policy with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell on Fox Business
Ed Conard discusses the JP Morgan fine and why the banks are not entirely to blame for the Great Recession on "All In" and with Chris Hayes on MSNBC
Ed Conard discusses the Republicans' debt strategy with Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn on "The Hays Advantage" on Bloomberg Radio
Click here to listen to the full interview. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard discusses the best way forward for Detroit's financial recovery with Betty Liu on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard addresses the unsustainability of U.S. debt and why it is worth fighting for with David Asman and Liz Claman on Fox Business
Ed Conard argues why negotiation on the continuing resolution and debt ceiling is key to lowering government spending on "Money Moves" with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard on CBS "Money Watch" explaining why negotiations over the debt ceiling is key to reign in government spending
The case for hostage taking
POLITICO By Edward Conard | October 14, 2013 As the budget and debt ceiling-standoff continues in Washington, many are asking the wrong question: Which party will pay a political price for the government shutdown? Democrats are comparing ... [Read More]
Ed Conard discusses how the markets will respond to the nomination of Janet Yellen as the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve with Trish Regan on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard addresses the underlying issues behind the government shutdown on Bloomberg TV's "In the Loop" with Betty Liu
Make the President a Spending Offer He Can't Refuse
Roll Call By Edward Conard | September 30, 2013 Have right-wing Republicans fooled the moderate wing of their party into pursuing a quixotic effort to defund Obamacare at the risk of severely disrupting the government and reducing their chances ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on CNBC offers insight into how the debt ceiling fight factors into the 2014 midterm elections
Ed Conard on "Bloomberg Surveillance" examining House Republicans' plans for negotiating over the debt ceiling
Ed Conard on Bloomberg TV discussing how BlackBerry can save their struggling company
Ed Conard on "The Willis Report" on Fox News discussing which college majors are most valuable and lead to economic growth
Ed Conard speaking with Tom Ashbrook on NPR's "On Point" about the value of technology and business degrees to the economy
Click here to listen to the full interview on NPR. ... [Read More]
Yale's The Politic: An Interview with Edward Conard
The Politic - The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Politics "An Interview with Edward Conard" By Adira Levine The Politic: What do you see as the current direction of the economy? There are two kinds of recessions. The most common recessions ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" with Betty Liu discussing how the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve will impact monetary policy
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" with Betty Liu addressing the conflict between the RNC and NBC about the network's apparent bias
Ed Conard on "Happening Now" on Fox News analyzing how to accurately gauge U.S. economic growth
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Varney & Co." takes on Obama's proposed tax plan
We don't need more humanities majors
Washington Post By Edward Conard | July 30, 2013 It's no secret that innovation grows America's economy. But that growth is constrained in two ways. It is constrained by the amount of properly trained talent, which is needed to produce ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on the "The Hays Advantage" on Bloomberg Radio
With hosts Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn Ed addresses how the Fed's QE has the potential to hard long-term economic growth. To listen to the full interview click here. ... [Read More]
To Restrain Leviathan, Let's Outlaw Mandatory Spending Increases
Real Clear Politics By Edward Conard | July 3, 2013 Mandatory spending ensures there will never be a grand bargain to bring America's fiscal policy back into equilibrium. Despite our threatening fiscal affairs-a $650 billion deficit, publically ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" with Betty Liu Discussing His Recent OpEd in Fortune Magazine
What we can learn from the Fed's failures
Fortune Magazine By Edward Conard | July 1, 2013 Bernanke's efforts have failed to produce a robust recovery and they've underscored the need for lower government spending. After Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced the Fed would ... [Read More]
Ed Conard Debates the Economic Value of Humanities Degrees on "Street Smart" with Trish Regan on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard co-hosts "The Kudlow Report" on CNBC and Discusses the Recent IRS Scandal Along With the Lack of Entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Ed Conard Discusses How Infrastructure is Not the Answer with Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard on The Jim Bohannon Show
How to Fix America
Which Tools Should Washington Use? Unleash the Private Sector By Edward Conard | May 13, 2013 In "Can America Be Fixed?" (January/February 2013), Fareed Zakaria argues that American democracy has grown increasingly dysfunctional since the 1970s ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Money Moves" on Bloomberg TV with Erik Schatzker
Ed Conard on The Marc Steiner Show
Ed Conard discusses President Obama's proposed budget with Margaret Flowers, co-director of It'sOurEconomy.US, and Scott Lilly, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Money Moves" on Bloomberg TV with Deirdre Bolton
Ed Conard on HuffPost Live
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV with Betty Liu
Fox Business with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
The Diane Rehm Show
Click here to listen to the show. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV with Betty Liu
Ed on Betty Liu discuss U.S. fiscal policy, Detroit's financial instability and the outlook for buyout activity. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Ed addresses what sequester cuts will really mean for the economy. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" with Trish Reagan
Ed Conard on "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, Paul Krugman, Arianna Huffington and Mort Zuckerman
Ed Conard on "Money Moves" on Bloomberg TV with Deirdre Bolton
Ed Conard on Varney & Co. on Fox Business
What are the long-term effects of tax increases? Ed discusses this and more. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Joe Stiglitz on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes
Ed Conard and Joe Stiglitz debate the state of the U.S. economy. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.comWatch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.comWith "Markets Now" hosts Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell Ed discusses a recent Gallup poll showing the public's dissatisfaction with Washington ... [Read More]
PRI's The Takeaway with John Hockenberry
Ed Conard addresses President Obama's negotiation tactics on the fiscal cliff and what the eventual deal will mean for the U.S. economy. ... [Read More]
Edward Conard: Among the top 10 most searched authors on Google in 2012
Google's "Zeitgeist" search trends report shows "Edward Conard" as one of the top ten most searched authors in 2012. Below is a full list of the top ten most searched authors. You can find a link to the report here. Charles Duhigg William ... [Read More]
The objective of economic policy as illustrated by 200 years of economic history condensed into 4 minutes
Hans Rosling's amazing video: "200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes" brings the goal of The Coherent Research Institute into focus. ... [Read More]
The Goal of Tax Policy
People often view debates over economic policy as debates between selfish libertarians, who seek to keep what they earn, and generous communitarians seeking to help the poor. Communitarians recognize that talent is randomly distributed among ... [Read More]
Does a lack of correlation prove that taxes don't affect growth rates?
A recent study posted by the Congressional Budget Office, "Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945" purports to show that tax rates are uncorrelated with growth and savings. Some political commentators, such as ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Bloomberg TV with Tom Keene
Ed discusses U.S. tax policy and campaign financing. ... [Read More]
Why tax hikes fall short for cliff talks
POLITICO By Edward Conard | December 12, 2012 To accelerate private-sector growth, Republicans will need all their negotiating leverage to minimize taxes on investors by maximizing spending cuts. In a world where the majority of voters garner ... [Read More]
Surveillance Midday with Tom Keene
Ed discusses the recent presidential election and his book, Unintended Consequences. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV with Betty Liu
Ed talks taxes and why rates for the rich will not close the deficit. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business News with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
Ed addresses Obama's increased government spending and the public's dissatisfaction with Washington D.C. politics. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com ... [Read More]
Warren Buffett Is Wrong About Taxes
Bloomberg By Edward Conard | December 3, 2012 The U.S. is holding a debate that is critical to its future: whether to tax, redistribute and consume income that would otherwise be invested. Warren Buffett has weighed in, supporting higher taxes ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Up" with Chris Hayes debating Sen. Sherrod Brown
Ed debates Senator Sherrod Brown and Molly Ball from The Atlantic on what the administration and Congress should do leading up to the fiscal cliff. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Money" with Melissa Francis
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Former Bain Capital Managing Director Ed Conard, Greenleaf Book Group CEO Clint Greenleaf and Tasti D-Lite CEO Jim Amos on how Obama's re-election impacts businesses. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business with Connell McShane and Dagen McDowell
Ed discusses the effect of President Obama's re-election on the financial markets. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Money Moves" on Bloomberg TV with Deirdre Bolton
On "Money Moves" Ed speculates on who will win the presidential election and the future of private equity. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Varney & Co. on Fox Business
Will Romney be able to compromise and work with Congress if he is elected president? Ed discusses how Mitt Romney would advance the administration's agenda if he were elected. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard speaking at the UP Experience
Ed explains the success of his book and how the U.S. became the most powerful economy in the world. Edward Conard: Unintended Consequences from The UP Experience ... [Read More]
The Takeaway with John Hockenberry on PRI
Ed Debates Timothy Noah on how to best fix America's debt. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" on Bloomberg TV
Ed talks about the the slow recovery of the U.S. economy. ... [Read More]
Do We Get the Banks We Deserve?
Ed Conard, Justin Rowlatt, Kai Ryssdal and Eliot Spitzer discuss the scrutiny of financial institutions and consumers on the BBC's "Marketplace Live." ... [Read More]
Howard Dean & Ed Conard Preview The First Presidential Debate
What's in store when Obama and Romney meet for the first debate? ... [Read More]
Debate at Columbia Business School with Rep. Barney Frank and Andrew Ross Sorkin
Ed debates policymakers and pundits on the role of risk in spurring innovation in business. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business' Money with Melissa Francis
Ed weighs in on income inequality and Elizabeth Warren's statements at the DNC. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Fox & Friends" during the Republican National Convention
Ed Conard discusses why Mitt Romney should not apologize for his successful record at Bain Capital. ... [Read More]
Ed Conard talks with Neil Cavuto from Fox Business
The Book of Ed
Huffington Post By Howard Fineman | July, 2012 Ed Conard's book Unintended Consequences is onThe New York Times best-seller list, but it was hard to find at my neighborhood Washington bookstore, Politics and Prose, deep in what you could call ... [Read More]
Ed Conard speaks with Michael Ettlinger from Center for American Progress on C-SPAN
Ed Conard on CNBC's Closing Bell
Ed Conard on "In the Loop" with Betty Liu on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard debating Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC's Squawk Box
What Obama Didn't Learn From the 1990s
The Wall Street Journal By Edward Conard | August, 2012 With the prospects for a postrecession economic rebound fading, it has grown increasingly obvious that the United States must eventually raise taxes or cut spending. President Obama claims ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Austan Goolsbee at the Center for American Progress
On a panel entitled "Who Holds the Keys to Prosperity," Ed Conard debates which socioeconomic class is most responsible for driving U.S. economic growth. On the panel is Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal, Austan Goolsbee, former ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Cavuto" on Fox Business Channel
Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxbusiness.com">video.foxbusiness.com</a> ... [Read More]
Ed Conard speaks with aiCIO's Paula Vasan
(Click image to reach video) ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on "Up" with Chris Hayes
Ricochet's Money & Politics Podcast with Jim Pethokoukis
Inside the List
By Gregory Cowles Published: July 6, 2012 UNEQUAL EXCHANGE: For a few weeks now, two drastically different arguments about America's income gap have been bouncing around the hardcover nonfiction list. In "The Price of Inequality" (currently at ... [Read More]
Capitalism Is Regulation – The New Republic's Eric Posner reviews "Unintended Consequences"
By Eric A. Posner The New Republic July 5th, 2012 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS of 2008 shook the faith of many people in free markets. It marked the end of a political consensus in favor of limited regulation and low taxes that began in the late 1970s. ... [Read More]
"Big Think" interview on the success of Bain Capital
"The Bain Capital Way: Create as Much Value at the Lowest Cost as Fast as You Can" Daniel Honan | July 5, 2012, What's the Big Idea? If you're in a horse race--and that's how Bill Bain would describe private equity--you don't try to teach the ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Joe Stiglitz on BBC's "In the Balance"
Listen to the interview here ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Nick Hanauer on "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESUwN9Uc_0 ... [Read More]
Ed Conard's interview with the Heritage Foundation
Edward Conard spent 14 years as a partner at Bain Capital, the most scrutinized company in America. But these days, he's in the news for another reason. As the author of "Unintended Consequences," Conard has challenged the conventional wisdom about ... [Read More]
The Heritage Foundation hosts Ed Conard and Rep. Buck McKeon
The Long and the Short of Extending Bond Maturities
The Wall Street Journal By Edward Conard | June 26, 2012 Todd G. Buchholz says the U.S. government should lock in low interest rates by issuing long-term debt ("Washington Should Lock In Low Rates," op-ed, June 20), but it is a bad idea. No ... [Read More]
Stansberry Radio
Ed Conard speaks with Milt Rosenberg
Michael Medved interviews Ed Conard about the U.S. economy
Ira Stoll's review in "Future of Capitalism"
Mitt Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, has been in the news lately because of the Republican presidential candidate's record there, which is being attacked by President Obama. But Mr. Romney turns out not to be the only participant in ... [Read More]
Ed Conard discussing how private equity and investing helps the middle class on America Now radio with Andy Dean
How to Get Our Savings on the Move Again
Harvard Business Review Friday June 8, 2012 by Edward Conard Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another ... [Read More]
Laura Ingraham's radio show
Ed Conard on Business News Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IaPvGQEhNU ... [Read More]
How America Can Lead the Global Economy
What I learned at Bain Capital working with Mitt Romney: outsourcing is good and America's future isn't manufacturing, it's ideas. Foreign Policy Magazine By Edward Conard | June 7, 2012 The United States must integrate its economy more fully ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz
Bloomberg TV - In the Loop with Betty Liu video ... [Read More]
The Wall Street Shuffle with Daniel M. Cofall
Businessweek review by Roger Lowenstein
With his bashing of private equity, Barack Obama has given Mitt Romney a huge opening. Edward Conard, Romney's friend and former partner at Bain Capital, is eagerly seizing that opportunity with his manifesto for private investment, Unintended ... [Read More]
Ed Conard's interview with The Daily Caller
Chris Stigall Radio Show
Ed Conard on Fox Business Channel with Neil Cavuto
Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo
Ed Conard on CNN's Your Money with Ali Velshi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp828RQhU8U ... [Read More]
Read Ed's Interview with American Enterprise Institute Magazine
Innovation, Risk, and the 'Most Hated Book of the Year' By Nick Schulz Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Edward Conard argues that in the wake of the commercialization of the Internet, the structure of our unrealized ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox & Friends
Ed Conard on Wall Street Journal's The News Hub with Simon Constable
Ed Conard on TheStreet.com
Ed Conard on CNN's Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwUhJJY5LM Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3i64IZttY ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront
Ed Conard on "Cavuto" on Fox Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntXNsYh32o ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Bloomberg's In The Loop With Betty Liu
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i5PMEB0h3k Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M82H4QNHOPU ... [Read More]
The Morning Meeting Radio Show
Ed Conard on Reuters TV
Ed Conard on Fox Business Channel's Willis Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2OWy5XwgF4 ... [Read More]
Fairness Radio with Chuck and Patrick
How Roe v. Wade Empowered U.S. Investors
Bloomberg By Edward Conard It's possible, but unlikely, that small differences in culture alone can explain the greater economic success of the U.S. relative to Europe and Japan after the introduction of the Internet. The U.S. has poured ... [Read More]
Romney's Former Partner: Mitt Has 'Deep Understanding' of Economy
Newsmax Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:15 PM By Andra Varin and John Bachman Mitt Romney understands how the economy works and he is ready to focus on long-term growth by encouraging private investment in innovation, author Ed Conard told Newsmax ... [Read More]
Edward Conard on "Big Think"
Ed Conard: The Man Behind the 'Most Hated Book in America' Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd | May 21, 2012 Due to his argument that income inequalty is a sign that the economy is working, The New York Times called former Bain Capital Managing ... [Read More]
The Peter Schiff Show
McIntyre in the Morning
The Brian Lehrer Show
Ed Conard in Bloomberg: Investment, the Engine of U.S. Prosperity, Is Underrated
By Edward Conard May 13, 2012 6:00 PM ET Proponents and opponents of income redistribution differ greatly in their explanations for the success of the U.S. Opponents argue that the discovery and commercialization of innovation are no different ... [Read More]
The Mark Skoda Show
Ed Conard on CNBC's Kudlow Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSaP0y7Nns ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Yahoo Finance
Ed Conard on Varney & Co. on Fox Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8567y-V7Lc ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fox Business Channel's Varney & Co.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgR6uiFcg3Q ... [Read More]
Kilmeade and Friends
Ed Conard talks with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1GrE-LzfY ... [Read More]
NPR's The Takeaway
NPR's The Takeaway Thursday, May 10, 2012 ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Newsmax TV
Ed Conard debates Governor Ed Rendell on MSNBC's Morning Joe
Ed Conard on CNBC's Squawk Box hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin
NPR's "The Takeaway"
NPR The Takeaway Thursday, May 03, 2012 Guests: Pippa Malmgren Produced by: Ben Gottlieb Over the past year, "We are the 99 percent" has become a near-ubiquitous expression of solidarity against income inequality. It's growing and many cite it ... [Read More]
MSNBC discusses Edward Conard May 5, 2012
MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner" discusses Ed Conard's new book, Unintended Consequences which is featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdexE3HIoRk ... [Read More]
Ed Conard Responds to a New York Times Magazine Article
It's unfortunate, in this highly politicized climate, that we can't have a serious discussion about what's best for the middle class and the working poor: innovation, prudent risk taking and the payoffs that motivate it or higher taxes on lucky ... [Read More]
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy
By Adam Davidson New York Times Magazine Published: May 1, 2012 To read Ed's reply to this article, click here. Ever since the financial crisis started, we've heard plenty from the 1 percent. We've heard them giving defensive testimony in ... [Read More]
Publishers Weekly Review
Conard, a former partner at Bain Capital, the venture capital firm founded by Mitt Romney, and a Romney megadonor in the 2012 presidential campaign, expounds on U.S. economic policy and the future, defending private investment against government ... [Read More]
Please Don't Soak the Rich
A successful economy requires outsize rewards for the able (and lucky) few who overcome very long odds to produce valuable innovations that others are willing to pay for. By Brian M. Carney In the wake of the 2008 financial panic, a narrative has ... [Read More]
Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution Reviews Unintended Consequences
Part 1 Edward Conard, author of Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong, offers a hypothesis. He suggests the underlying cause is the (relatively recent) prevalence of risk-averse foreign capital: With ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on Fareed Zakaria
Ed Conard discusses how innovation and risk taking drive economic growth and benefit the middle class with Fareed Zakaria on CNN's "Global Public Square." ... [Read More]
Ed Conard debates Alan Krueger on Obama's economic record and if he's to blame for slow growth on Bloomberg TV
Ed Conard debates Alan Krueger on Obama's economic record and if he's to blame for slow growth on Bloomberg's "In the Loop with Betty Liu." ... [Read More]
No Role for Fed in Income Distribution
NEW YORK TIMES by Ed Conard | October 27, 2014 The Federal Reserve has neither the mandate to redistribute wealth nor the tools to do it effectively. Should it try, it will likely fail. Were it to succeed, it would likely lower middle- and ... [Read More]
Ed Conard on ABC News
Ed Conard explains how America's top earners impact the economy on ABC's "World News Tonight with David Muir." ... [Read More]
Rescuing Subprime Borrowers Won't Fix the Economy
Fortune Magazine By Edward Conard | June 11, 2014 In their new book, House of Debt, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi make a persuasive argument that a decline in consumption caused by a drop in home prices slowed the economic recovery more than a weakened ... [Read More]


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I'm using Ext Designer 1.2.2 with Ext JS 3. I successfully export the project, but when I try to run it I receive:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'on' of undefined
The problem is in the following code:
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In my case I have a PagingToolbar with a store set and when that component needs it the store is still not created.
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Purchased this dress to wear at an annual awards dinner that I help coordinate, rewore to another event a year later, and will remain a part of my wardrobe. Ideal design for many body types. Absolutely gorgeous design. Love the bodice lines and the flow of the skirt. Primarily worn with the lovely wrap but looks great without as well.
This dress was for my husbands 60th birthday party.
I was a bit worried about the size of the dress when I ordered it as they do not offer this model as made to measure. My measurements do not correspod to any standard size. Chest and hips correspod to a 12 but unfortunately my waist is closer to a 16. I went ahead and ordered a 14. The fit was much better than expected. A bit too big on the chest but you cannot really see it as I kept the bolero over it all night. The black part of the dress is stretch so thanks to this I had no problem with the waist. All in all a good buy, I had loads of compliments on the night. Attached a picture taken at the party
Very flattering dress for plus size. Jacket sleeve was a bit tight. Otherwise, loved it. Please make a lighter-colored version!
Beautiful dress exquisitely made, all details as in picture.
She loves it.
I love the cut of this dress, it fits smug, and looks great. Thank you
Received my dress today for a wedding in August, less than 2 hours ago and had to try it on. I ordered a size 18 and it is very flattering. I have a small waist and am bigger in the hips. The only problem is that I need more support in the chest area and will wear a strapless bra with the dress and will need to have the straps altered as well. Once I get the alterations done, I will make sure that I post a picture.
Very comfortable beautiful dress
beautiful dress .. a lot gave me a compliment
i have already said this dress is lovely fits very nice and the style is really good and it came very quickly concidering it was from far away places
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Multimedia forensics is a research field in Computer Science and Digital Forensics that may have important impact to law enforcement and protection of public safety and national security. Steganography, forgery manipulation, and the detection are actively delivered in the area.
I focus on steganalysis and forgery detection on multimedia data. Our recent work include
Bioinformatics aims to increase the understanding of biological processes, with the aids of computer science, statistics and modern biological techniques. We focus on the high-throughput biological data analysis, including:
I got my Bachelor and Master degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University and Sichuan University of China, respectively, and my Ph.D. in Compture Science from New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT), a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research, as designated by National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. My PhD advisor is Professor Andrew H. Sung.
After my PhD study, I was working at NMT as a senior research scientist and adjunct faculty for three years. In August 2010, I joined the Computer Science Department of the Sam Houston State
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I'm using the code from your register-helper plugin and it works for everything except I can't figure out the file upload field. I'm guessing that I have to create a directory or have it upload off-site, but I cannot find documentation anywhere.
Here's the code I'm using:
$resume = new PMProRH_Field("resume", "file", array("profile"=>true, "options"=>array()));
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Adam Kendon
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Adam Kendon (born in London, son of Frank Kendon) is one of the world's foremost authorities on the topic of gesture. He initially focused on sign systems in Papua New Guinea and Australian Aboriginal sign languages, before developing a general framework for understanding gestures with the same kind of rigorous semiotic analysis as has been previously applied to spoken language.
Educated at University of Cambridge and Oxford Universities in biology and experimental psychology, his thesis topic—communication conduct in face-to-face interaction—spelled out the interests he would pursue in subsequent decades. He is noted for his study of gesture and sign languages and how these relate to spoken language.
He is currently (as of 2011) editor of the journal GESTURE, published since 2001 by John Benjamins of Amsterdam.
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- An exhaustive bibliography and biography of Adam Kendon at the Wayback Machine (archived June 29, 2007)
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How to Make Your Home a Feline Paradise/Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-251Save Your Furniture and Thrill Your Cat!To keep your cat happy, healthy, loving, fit, and feeling the enthusiasm of a kitten, turn your home into a feline paradise! Kittens, adult cats, and elderly felines alike delight in having their own playthings and spaces in the home. For the ultimate in pampering treatment, offer your cat scratching posts, catnip toys, climbing structures, perching places,
A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder CatBONUS: This edition contains a new afterword and an excerpt from Gwen Cooper's Love Saves the Day.ONCE IN NINE LIVES, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS. The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen's veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who'd been
How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their HomeBob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, "I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble." In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie—Tarte confesses to allowing these interlopers to
$9.99The Instant New York Times Bestseller!James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey.A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and
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Here's the situation: We're replacing 11 printers with newer models, and we'll be installing them on our print server and sharing them out. The plan is to share the new printers under different names than the ones they're replacing, and un-share the old ones.
So I need to come up with a way to remove the client connections to old printers automatically. Clients are mostly Windows 7 with a few XP.
My first idea was to call
prnmngr.vbs from the login script to remove each old printer explicitly by name. The problem is that some users don't log out when they're done for the day, so I can't count on their login script running before they next need to print. I could remotely run
prnmngr.vbs using SCCM, but if it's not 'impersonating' the user, I don't think it will remove their printers. Any ideas? Could I lookup how to access WMI using c# code and write a "trojan" to remove specific printers without requiring the user to do anything? (I'm only half joking).
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Christmas Candy Ornament Made from Ribbon
Transform basic ribbon into sweet ornaments for your Christmas tree. The accordion-fold technique is easy to master and all you need are basic crafting supplies.
What You'll Need
- 8-inch length of 1-inch-wide satin ribbon in desired color and pattern
- Paper clip
- Needle
- Thread to match ribbon colors
- Small bead
How to Make It
1. Gently fold the ribbon back and forth accordion-style, making the loops about 1-1/2 inches wide. Secure with a paper clip.
2. Thread the needle using two strands of thread. Tie a knot at one end.
3. Remove the paper clip and, starting at the bottom of the folds, place the needle and thread through the center of the folded ribbons. Pull the needle up through the ribbons with the knot at the bottom. Adjust the ribbon folds to resemble ribbon candy. Make a tiny stitch at the top of the ribbon folds to secure.
4. String a bead onto the thread in the center of the ribbon folds. Cut the thread leaving enough ribbon behind to hang the ribbon ornament.


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I have a rails app running on Heroku. I am using paperclip for some simple image uploads for user avatars and some other things, I have S3 set as my backend and everything seems to be working fine except when trying to push to S3 I get the following error:
The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records.
Thinking I mis-pasted my access key and secret key, I tried again, still no luck. Thinking maybe it was just a buggy key I deactivated it and generated a new one. Still no luck.
Now for both keys I have used the S3 browser app on OS X and have been able to connect to each and view my current buckets and add/delete buckets. Is there something I should be looking out for? I have my application's S3 and paperclip setup like so
bucket: (unique name)
access_key_id: ENV['S3_KEY']
secret_access_key: ENV['S3_SECRET']
bucket: (unique name)
access_key_id: ENV['S3_KEY']
secret_access_key: ENV['S3_SECRET']
bucket: (unique_name)
access_key_id: ENV['S3_KEY']
secret_access_key: ENV['S3_SECRET']
has_attached_file :cover,
:styles => {
:thumb => "50x50"
:storage => :s3,
:s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/s3.yml",
:path => ":class/:id/:style/:filename"
EDIT NOTE: The ENV['S3_KEY'] and ENV['S3_SECRET'] are environment variables in heroku which i have tried even using my keys directly and it still doesn't work
Note: I just added the (unique name) bits, those aren't actually there--I have also verified bucket names, but I don't even think this is getting that far. I also have my heroku environment vars setup correctly and have them setup on dev


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The words of a survivor of a Hellworld...
The words of a survivor of a Hellworld...
Jan 29, 2007 2:30AM PST
How long did I walk through Hell? Three days? Three years? Or maybe three hundred years? Time in Hell is meaningless, an utterly empty concept. Though you can hear their screams, you never see the others in that bleak, fiery place. This is the Hell created by the Emperor. Why was I sent there? I no longer remember. All I knew was that while others were eventually forgiven and allowed to die by the Emperor, I was never graced with that mercy... for I was his brother. Did I challenge him? Did I somehow betray him? I don't know. Even now, I don't know. How did I leave that place? The truth is that even now, I have never truly left that bleak, fiery place of despair. Though I have been told I survived, in truth there is nothing left of the person I was, except the memory that told me that the Emperor was my brother, and the knowledge that it was his will that I suffer there.
From 'The Journals of
Nameless God'
From 'The Journals of
Nameless God'
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This is...Posted: Jan 29, 2007 12:00AM PST by animefan78750
... the words of one of the other characters from my previous story, the Nameless God. He is a creature with no memory of his past, who suffers eternally even after his escape from the worst of all the Hellworlds, Shivrash. Shivrash is an artificial pocket in the way between worlds where the Emperor sends his worst enemies, and those he truly despises in a very personal way. It isn't a place that a common criminal would be sent. It was specifically made to inflict eternal suffering on his enemies, and even if they somehow escape it, they are in some way eternally bound to it, suffering.


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AAJ posted four interviews last week with Brad Mehldau, The World Saxophone Quartet (David Murray & Oliver Lake), Joe La Barbera and Dave Douglas. To read these interviews, click here.
Look for the following interviews this week...
Look for the following interviews this week...
* Ted Sirota
* Willie Oteri
* Toots Thielemans
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This is one of Varley's designs for the Zodiacal Physiognomy
(the relevant page is reproduced in a bound leaflet in this room). Varley included in the treatise a sketch after Blake's Head of the Ghost of a Flea (hanging nearby) and two other profiles, which are labelled in the book as Gemini and Cancer. It seems that Varley may have used a living model at some stage, as the younger figure shown here appears to be named 'Hannah'.
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I've been invited as a speaker at Javapolis. The subject will be "Interoperability between the Microsoft Platform and the Java Platforms". You can get the session details here. For the PPT's, you'll have to come! ;-)
The content of this presentation will mainly come from the work my colleague Simon Guest has done in his book "Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit" and will be very pragmatic. Simon has done a tremendous work around Interop not only with the J2EE world, but in general.
I must admit that I'm very eager to talk to non-Microsoft specialists and to show how the two platforms can nicely integrate. It's actually and excellent opportunity to hear feedback from them but also show the effort we do, day after day, to better integrate. There is also a number of technologies availabale to support this collaboration/integration. Among them, you can find:
Of course, I will address different scenarii around this collaboration/integration. We'll look at that from all the layers: presentation, integration, business and data layers. The challenges are numerous, the opportunities also.
We will also see what the future will bring to Interop (through Web Services) like Security, Routing, Reliable Messaging, Transaction support, attachment support, etc. More of those can be found at Microsoft in WSE 2.0, at IBM in ETTK 3.3.2 and at the Mind Electric in GLUE 4.1 which supports the WS-* in the latest drops.
A good information source at Microsoft can also be the Web Services Interoperability and Integration home page. There, you can actually find articles related to the Interop with BEA WebLogic 8.1.3 and also with IBM WSAD 5.1.2. Those are must-read.
Well, enough for now. Rest will come ... at Javapolis. I hope to see you guys there.


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Although ESFRI has set up Working Groups to examine the issue of data management where research infrastructures are concerned, ESFRI focuses its efforts in this respect through a close working relationship with its sister organisation, the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (the e-IRG).
The expanding use of e-infrastructures will rapidly change the landscape of science. Remote access to computing services, new instrumentation and virtual organisations in general, creates new opportunities for researchers to bring existing applications to higher levels of usability and performance. Additionally, it enables researchers to deploy new strategies in approaching scientific problems with simulation tools and intensive applications. Young people will be growing up in this "Virtual Research Environment" and research training will need to reflect this.
E-Infrastructures stimulate the identification and creation of new scientific communities, uniting researchers who are working on similar challenges and are willing to share resources and reach new levels of collaboration. Researchers can gain access to scientific data and instruments located in top level laboratories around the world without the need to travel. The emergence of virtual organisations distributed throughout the world, helps researchers to share resources and to strengthen collaboration on common issues. Widespread use of e-infrastructures represents also an effective answer to problems such as the digital divide and brain drain. This is demonstrated by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which is serving the worldwide community of particle physicists.
The major components of e-infrastructures are communication networks, distributed grids, high performance computing facilities and digital repositories. The e-infrastructure viewpoint is to consider them as a fully integrated system. There are many interdependencies between the components, so their evolutions should be planned in a highly consistent manner.


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How does an ant know about Earthquake is it because of an organ or due to other factors?
No, they may not sense Earthquake by an organ but due to other reasons. This may be any other physical factors which can be measured.
Fascinating though the behavior and physiology of ants may be, they cannot be employed as reliable predictors or even sensors of earthquakes.
Source: Shaken, not stirred: a serendipitous study of ants and earthquakes


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Executive Director Tony Sarmiento
Tony Sarmiento has served as executive director of Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI) since 2000. He has brought a wide range of experience and expertise to advocate for national policy and programs that support low-income older adults. He also serves on boards and committees of several leading national organizations focused on aging.
Prior to SSAI, Tony worked for more than 20 years with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) at its national headquarters in Washington, DC, where he held several senior positions including assistant director of its education department and director of Worker-Centered Learning for the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute. He also helped organize the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance in 1992.
Before the AFL-CIO, Tony was director of a neighborhood youth organization and then held positions in several District of Columbia government agencies, including the Mayor's Office of Youth Opportunity Services and the Department of Employment Services, where he was assistant to the director of programs funded by the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA).
He is currently a board member of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs, chair-elect of the Gerontological Society of America's Public Policy Committee, and chair of the American Library Association's Committee on Library Service to An Aging Population. He is also a board member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, and board secretary of the American Youth Policy Forum. In the past he has served on the boards of the American Society on Aging, SeniorNet, the National Institute for Literacy (as a presidential appointee), Literacy Volunteers of America, the Humanities Council of Washington DC, and the Historical Society of Washington DC.
In 2007 Tony was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. In 2001 he received a lifetime achievement award from the American Council on Education GED Testing Service and the Paul Robeson Award from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), District Council 1199C.
He holds a B.A. in American Studies from American University in Washington, DC and has studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY after graduating from the DC public schools.
SSAI Board of Directors
The following individuals serve on the Senior Service America, Inc. board of directors in addition to Executive Director Tony Sarmiento.
Spence Limbocker
SSAI Board Chairman
Executive Director (retired)
Neighboorhood Funders Group, Annandale, VA
Mr. Limbocker has worked for over forty years with community-based organizations and philanthropic institutions focused on effective community and economic development in low and moderate income communities. His prior positions include Associate Director, Catholic Campaign for Human Development; Administrative Director, ORGANIZE Training Center; and Peace Corps volunteer in Peru and Sierra Leone. He received his B.A. in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and Masters of Public Administration from the University of San Francisco.
Camila Alire
SSAI Board Vice Chair
Dean Emerita
University of New Mexico and Colorado State University, Sedalia, CO
Dr. Alire has held many leadership positions in the field of library science and librarianship, including serving as elected President of the American Library Association in 2009. Appointed by President Obama, she is currently a member of the National Council on the Humanities. She received her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Northern Colorado and her Masters in Library Science from the University of Denver.
Barbara Kaufmann
SSAI Board Secretary Treasurer
Division of Workforce Development, Montgomery County, Maryland, Rockville, MD
Ms. Kaufmann has almost 30 years of experience working at the state, local and national level on workforce development issues. Her career includes work with the American Association of Community Colleges, the Institute for Educational Leadership, the National Alliance of Business, and the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services. She received her B.S. in Journalism from Ohio University.
Traci L. McClellan-Sorell
SSAI Governance Committee Chair
McClellan-Sorell Consulting, Inc., Olathe, KS
Ms. McClellan-Sorell has worked in aging, advocacy, federal Indian law and non-profit management and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She previously served as the executive director of the National Indian Council on Aging and as the legislative director of the National Indian Health Board, a non-profit health advocacy organization working on behalf of all federally recognized tribes. She holds a B.A. in Native American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Tamara Baker
Associate Professor
University of Kansas Department of Psychology, Lawrence, KS
Dr. Baker teaches and conducts research in gerontology, particularly among diverse populations. She is currently the elected Secretary of the Gerontological Society of America and is the former chair of the GSA Task Force (now Committee) on Minority Issues in Gerontology. Baker also worked with SCSEP participants in Baltimore as a SSAI-SCSEP Fellow in 2008. She received her Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Health from Pennsylvania State University.
Fred Mason, Jr.
Maryland State-District of Columbia AFL-CIO, Annapolis, MD
Mr. Mason was first elected President of the Maryland State and District of Columbia, AFL-CIO in 2001 and has nearly 40 years of labor and social justice activism. Previously he was a State Director for the National AFL-CIO and served from 1990 to 1998 as Executive Vice-President of SEIU District 1199E-DC, a 10,000 member healthcare workers' union. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from Morgan State University.
Michael Raff
Deputy Director
City of Jackson Department of Human and Cultural Services, Jackson, MS
Mr. Raff has been a senior government official, political candidate, and community leader in Mississippi for over forty years. After resigning from the priesthood in 1971, he founded the Mississippi Legal Services Coalition, has run for several elected offices, and worked for several Mississippi governors and mayors of the City of Jackson. He received his M.A. in Theology and B.A. in Philosophy from Immaculate Conception Seminary after attending the University of Notre Dame.


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Diabetes Health Center
Heart Disease and Diabetes
In this article
How Is Heart Disease Treated in Those With Diabetes?
There are several treatment options for heart disease in those with diabetes, depending on the severity of the heart disease, including:
- Aspirin therapy* to reduce the risks of clots that lead to heart attacks and strokes.
- Diet.
- Exercise not only for weight loss, but to improve blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels and to decrease abdominal fat, a risk factor of heart disease.
- Medicines.
- Surgery.
How Is Peripheral Vascular Disease Treated?
Peripheral vascular disease is treated by:
- Participation in a regular walking program (45 minutes per day, followed by rest)
- Special footwear
- Aiming for an A1c below 7%
- Lowering your blood pressure to less than 130/80
- Geting your cholesterol to below 100
- Aspirin therapy*
- Medicines
- Stopping smoking
- Surgery (in some cases)
*Low-dose aspirin therapy is recommended for men and women with types 1 or 2 diabetes who are over age 40 and are at high risk for heart disease and peripheral vascular disease. Talk to your doctor to determine if aspirin therapy is right for you. If you have certain medical conditions, aspirin therapy may not be recommended.
How Can Heart Disease Be Prevented in a Person With Diabetes?
The best way to prevent heart disease is to take good care of yourself and your diabetes.
- Keep your blood sugar as normal as possible.
- Control your blood pressure, with medication if necessary. The target for people with diabetes is under 130/80.
- Get your cholesterol numbers under control. You may need to take medication to do this.
- Lose weight if you are obese.
- Ask your doctor if you should take an aspirin a day.
- Exercise regularly.
- Eat a heart-healthy diet such as the Mediterranean diet or DASH diet.
- Quit smoking.
- Work to reduce daily stress.
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Reviewed by Suzanne R. Steinbaum, MD on June 22, 2016
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