Kevin Hassett

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Kevin Hassett is senior fellow at the think tank American Enterprise Institute where he directs economic policy studies . He regularly appears on Bloomberg Television. He advised President Bush in his campaign, and he currently serves as a senior economic adviser to the John McCain 2008 presidential campaign.

Hassett is coauthor with K. Glassman, of Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. It was published in 1999 before the dot-com bubble burst. The book predicted that the Dow Jones industrials index would rise to 36000 within three to five years--i.e., 2002 or 2004. Hasset also writes for the AEI magazine The American.

Hassett obtained a Ph.D. in economics, from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in economics from Swarthmore College.