Kevin Hassett

Kevin Hassett

Kevin Hassett (Left) with Keith C. McCormic, a Republican candidate in 2008.
Nationality American
Institution American Enterprise Institute
School or tradition
 Conservative
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist. He is best known for his work on tax policy and for coauthoring Dow 36,000, published in 1999. Hassett is currently a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative[1][2][3][4] think tank. He was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election of 2008. He was Mitt Romney's economic adviser for the 2012 presidential campaign.[5]

Education and early career

Hassett is a native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Greenfield High School and played for Turnbull's in the Greenfield Minor League. He received a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School from 1989 to 1993 and an associate professor there from 1993 to 1994. From 1992 to 1997, Hassett was an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He served as a policy consultant to the United States Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.[6]

American Enterprise Institute

Hassett joined AEI as a resident scholar in 1997. He worked on tax policy, fiscal policy, energy issues, and investing in the stock market. He collaborated with R. Glenn Hubbard on work on the budget surplus, income inequality, and tax reform. Hassett published papers and articles on capital taxation, the consistency of tax policy, returns on energy conservation investments, corporate taxation, telecommunications competition, the effects of taxation on wages, dividend taxation, and carbon taxes.[6]

In 2003, Hassett was named director of economic policy studies at AEI. During his tenure at AEI, he became an increasingly prolific popular writer, penning articles in major newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He writes a monthly column for National Review and, since 2005, a weekly column for Bloomberg.[7]

Dow 36,000

Hassett is coauthor with James 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's title was based on a calculation that, in the absence of the equity premium, stock prices would be approximately four times as high as they actually were. In its introduction, Glassman and Hassett wrote that the book "will convince you of the single most important fact about stocks at the dawn of the twenty-first century: They are cheap....If you are worried about missing the market's big move upward, you will discover that it is not too late. Stocks are now in the midst of a one-time-only rise to much higher ground–to the neighborhood of 36,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average."[8] The Dow industrials index closed at 10,681.06 on the day of the book's publication[9] but by the end of 2004 it remained at essentially the same level – 10,783.01, having dropped over 25% in the meantime but recovered. As of March 9, 2009, the trough of the 2008–9 bear market, the Dow Jones was at 6,547.05, 81% below his 36,000 prediction. As of January 17, 2014, the Dow Jones was at 16,476.73, 54% below his 36,000 prediction.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Why Deflation Is Worse Than Inflation John Makin of the conservative American Enterprise Institute calls deflation "a classic prolonger of crises predicts it will be here by the end of the year.
  2. ↑ GOP Commentator David Frum Loses Job After Criticizing Party David Frum, who wrote a widely circulated blog post Sunday suggesting passage of the health care bill amounted to "Waterloo" for the Republican Party, has apparently been forced out of his fellowship at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
  3. ↑ Conservative Think Tank AEI Names a New Leader
  4. ↑ Despite Arrests, Working to Rebuild Russia Ties As Leon Aron, a Russian expert at the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative research organization, noted: “The relationship survived Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. That was serious stuff and everybody rolled with the punches.”
  5. ↑ Who Are Obama's and Romney's Key Economic Advisers?
  6. 1 2 Kevin Hassett curriculum vitae on AEI website.
  7. ↑ Full listing of Hassett's Bloomberg columns.
  8. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0609806998
  9. ↑ Bloomberg terminal data, for November 14, 2000

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