Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

in Economics from Yale University (1962) and an M. Laffer earned a B. A.

Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for governments. : /ˈlæfər/; born August 14 1940) is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–89).