Two individuals were arrested Monday evening after a protest disrupted and ultimately shut down a Binghamton University lecture given by Arthur B. Laffer, a revered economist who was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom this June.
Dubbed “father of supply-side economics,” Laffer is America’s leading economist in favor of tax cuts and a free market. He served on Ronald Reagan’s economic policy advisory board throughout the 1980s. His scheduled lecture at BU, titled “Trump, Tariffs, Trade Wars,” was meant to offer insights on the Trump administration’s economic strategy.
