To A Meeting of the Prosperity Caucus
with Guest Speaker

Andrew Busch

Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist for

BMO Capital Markets and host of

CNBC’s Money in Motion

Thursday, October 13, 2011
6:00 p.m.

Location:
Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002-4999
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Upcoming Events

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Location:  TBD

Sylvia Nasar

Author of

Grand Pursuit:  The Story of Economic Genius

December

Daniel Yergin

Author of

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

January

Mallory Factor

Founder of the Monday Meeting and

Contributor to Forbes Magazine

To A Meeting of the Prosperity Caucus
with Guest Speaker

Orrin Hatch

US Senator from Utah

“What Tax Reform Does and Does Not Mean”

Tuesday, September  20, 2011
6:00 p.m.

Location:
Heritage Foundation Rooftop
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002-4999
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Orrin Hatch is the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and a former Chair of the Senate Judiciary and HELP committees. He was also key denizen of the supply-side revolution of the 1980s, playing a crucial role in formulating the original 1978 legislation to reduce marginal tax rates to spur economic growth as well as in securing passage of the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in 1981.

To A Meeting of Prosperity Caucus

with Guest Speaker

Stephen Rose

“Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger From the Financial Crisis”

Discussant:  Bill Lewis, Founder, McKinsey Global Research Institute

Moderator: Rob Atkinson, President, ITIF

Thursday, June 17, 2010

6:00 p.m.

Location:

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

1101 K Street, N.W. Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
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Stephen Rose, the labor economist and author of Social Stratification in the United States, examines the current economic downturn less for the weaknesses of the system that caused it than for the  strengths—the prospect of financial regulation; new investments in education, health care, and energy—we can build on to come back as a robust and thriving economy. More info on his new book, “Rebound,” is available here.

To A Meeting of Prosperity Caucus

with Guest Speaker

Bruce Bartlett

The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward

(Link)

David Leonhardt Article: Partisan Economics in Action

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

6:00 p.m.

Location:

American Enterprise Institute

1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
[Directions to AEI]

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Upcoming Events:

November 18^th, Heritage Foundation with Robert Pozen (book)

Bruce Bartlett was deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he served from September 1988 to January 1993. In 1987 and 1988, Bartlett was a senior policy analyst in the Office of Policy Development at the White House.

From 1985 through 1987, he was a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Between 1976 and 1984, Bartlett held numerous positions on Capitol Hill. In 1976, he served on the staff of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas as a legislative assistant. In 1977, he joined the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp of New York as a special assistant and staff economist. While with Kemp, Bartlett helped draft the famous Kemp-Roth tax bill. Between 1979 and 1980, he worked for Sen. Roger Jepsen of Iowa as chief legislative assistant. In 1981, Bartlett joined the staff of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress as deputy director, becoming executive director in 1983. Bartlett is a prolific author, having published over 900 articles in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, as well as many prominent magazines such as Fortune. In 1996, one of his columns inspired Bob Dole’s 15 percent tax reduction plan.

Bartlett has also written for important academic journals and published four books, including Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, published in 1981.

To A Meeting of Prosperity Caucus

with Guest Speaker

Richard Reeves

Director of the think tank Demos

and author of the new book:  John Stuart Mill–Victorian Firebrand

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

6:00 p.m.

Location:

Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002-4999

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Upcoming Events:

October, AEI

Richard Reeves is the Director of Demos, a London-based think tank.  His latest book is John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, which was shortlisted for the Channel Four Political Book of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Richard is a political columnist for Prospect magazine and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Observer and New Statesman as well as a range of British radio and television programmes.

To the Annual Prosperity Caucus Happy Hour

Come join your fellow Prosperity Caucus members in drinks, food and intelligent conversation

(by the way, the food and drinks are on us).

with Special Guests

Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University, who will discus his new book Create Your Own Economy

and

Doug Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic advisor to the McCain campaign, who will talk about the Forum for Issues, Ideas, and Innovation

Monday, August 3, 2009 6:00 p.m.

Location: Union Pub

201 Massachusetts Ave, NE (across the street from Heritage Foundation)

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Upcoming Events:

September, 2009: Tucker Carlson at Heritage Foundation

John Taylor

Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics

Stanford University

Topic

A discussion and book signing of Dr. Taylor’s new book, Getting Off Track

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

6:00 p.m.

Location:

Americans for Tax Reform

722 12^th St., NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005

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Upcoming Events:

July – Heritage Foundation with guest Rich Miniter of The Washington Times

August—Annual Happy Hour at Union Pub

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University.  He formerly served as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research where he is currently a Senior Fellow.  He is also the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Taylor’s fields of expertise are monetary policy, fiscal policy, and international economics.

Senator Ensign, first elected to the Senate in 2000, is the Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and is considered one of the leading voices of the Republican Party today.

Upcoming Events:
June 17, 2009:  John Taylor
July, 2009:  Speaker TBA, Heritage Foundation
August, 2009:  Annual Prosperity Caucus Happy Hour

Location: American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth St. NW, Washington, DC

RSVP: Here

Jim Glassman was the first editor-in-chief and executive publisher of The American, a magazine of ideas focusing on business, economics, and public affairs. His work at AEI had been dedicated to the intersection of policy, finance and technology. For more than a decade, he wrote an investing column for the Washington Post, as well as two books on finance, most recently The Secret Code of the Superior Investor. On June 8, 2008 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he was sworn in as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. government non-military international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra. Before coming to AEI, he was publisher of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly and editor of the congressional newspaper Roll Call.