This is a compilation of research papers written by portfolio strategists to illustrate the investment portfolio applications of supply-side economics. Each chapter identifies a particular portfolio strategy and examines its historical record. The issues explored include investing in small company stocks, investing in real estate, the effect of protectionist policies on the stock market, and the state competitive enivronment. The book has been compiled for investors, investment managers, and financial analysts. "AAII Journa"l

A timely and innovative resource for investors, investment managers, financial analysts, and portfolio strategists, Supply-Side Portfolio Strategies highlights the significance of incentive economics and its investment applications in today's volatile and uncertain economic climate. Each chapter identifies a particular portfolio strategy, and examines its historical record. Among the issues explored are investing in small company stocks, investing in real estate, the effect of protectionist policies on the stock market, the state competitive environment, and the CATS approach to portfolio selection. Numerous tables and figures amplify points made in the text.

California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and economic issues of our nation's largest metropolitan areas, and in this collection compiled and introduced by City Journal editor Brian C. Anderson, the cracks in California's flawed policy plans are displayed in detail, and analyzed by a diverse set of experts in the state's design. The list of contributors includes: Steven Malanga, William Voegeli, Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox, Arthur B. Laffer, Steven Greenhut, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, John Buntin, Ben Boychuk, Tom Gray, Andrew Klavan, Troy Senik, Larry Sand, Michael Anton, and Guy Sorman. While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country. The book is as thoroughly analytical as it is pragmatically proscriptive, complete with policy solutions mapping the way forward for a struggling state.

A VITAL ROAD MAP TO HELP OUR COUNTRY REGAIN ITS LOST PROSPERITY
With the economy flat on its back, unemployment at a twenty-five-year high, and the housing default crisis still worsening, is it even possible to turn our financial problems around? Economic icon Arthur B. Laffer and journalist Stephen Moore believe America can once again become the land of economic opportunity, and this brilliant new book tells us exactly how.
In their rousing clarion call against the government's current fiscal strategies, "The End of Prosperity, "the authors focused on how lowering taxes will promote economic growth. Now," "they detail the other crucial components. Simply put, the keys to prosperity are low, flat-rate taxes; government spending restraint; sound and stable money; free trade; and minimal regulation. This book gives concrete proposals on how to return to prosperity using common sense principles of good economic behavior.
While most of the proposed solutions to our economic decline are fraught with peril, "Return to Prosperity "provides a refreshing counterbalance--a prescription for the fundamental tools America needs in order to set out on the road to recovery. It is essential reading for anyone who worries that the current economy is faltering, with no clear plan articulated to stop it.

Now available in paperback with a new updated chapter, this timely book by three distinguished economists delivers an urgent message: Americans risk losing their high standard of living if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new president.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s. Now, America is moving away from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk.
Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the prosperity many people have come to take for granted, and explain how the policies of Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi can cause America to lose its status as the world growth and job creation machine. This book is essential reading for all Americans who value our nation's free enterprise system and want to know how to protect their own investments in the coming storm.

When Ronald Reagan took office, he was facing an economic downturn similar to the one our country is currently experiencing. Key members of Reagan's staff prepared an Initial Actions Project, which takes every branch of government, including Congress, into consideration, and offers a clear and concise blueprint of how Reagan's economic policies were achieved. As a model for President Obama, who is dealing with the daunting demands of a nation in turmoil, the significance of this report has never been more timely. History proves that President Reagan's policies led to economic growth; will President Obama overturn this invaluable legacy? Only time--and history--will tell.
Featuring a special Introduction by Arthur B. Laffer, who also worked in the Reagan White House, "President Ronald Reagan's Initial Actions Project" puts the IAP action plan in perspective and provides valuable insight into the most important economic issues of our time.