The stock market, taxes, the budget, and inflation were among the topics Edward Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Bush, and I chatted about in his office yesterday afternoon at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. I will post a full transcript later, but here is the quick-and-dirty version for your perusal. more >>

Is the Social Security solvency "crisis" really not a crisis at all? Maybe not, if Edward Lazear, chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, has his numbers correct. Yesterday, Lazear held a media briefing about the 2007 Economic Report of the President. more >>