25 Facts About Kevin Hassett

Kevin Allen Hassett was born on March 20,1962 and is an American economist who has been the director of the National Economic Council since 2025.

Kevin Hassett was the senior advisor and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 to 2019.

Kevin Hassett coauthored Dow 36,000, published in 1999, which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004.

Kevin Hassett was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries, as well as economic adviser to the 2004 campaign of George W Bush and 2008 campaign of McCain.

Kevin Hassett was an economic adviser on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

Kevin Hassett returned to the White House in 2020 to work on the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Kevin Hassett did not focus on public health policy, but rather influenced the administration's response from an economic angle amid lockdowns and social distancing.

Kevin Hassett built a model that indicated that COVID-19 deaths would drop off to near zero by May 2020.

Kevin Hassett's model contradicted assessments by public health experts, and was ridiculed by academics and commentators.

On November 26,2024, president-elect Donald Trump announced Kevin Hassett will be his director of the National Economic Council.

Kevin Hassett is from Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Greenfield High School.

Kevin Hassett 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, Kevin Hassett was an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Kevin Hassett worked on tax policy, fiscal policy, energy issues, and investing in the stock market.

Kevin Hassett collaborated with R Glenn Hubbard on work on the budget surplus, income inequality, and tax reform.

Kevin 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.

In 2003, Kevin Hassett was named director of economic policy studies at AEI.

Kevin Hassett wrote columns in newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Kevin Hassett writes a monthly column for National Review and, since 2005, a weekly column for Bloomberg.

In 2007, Kevin Hassett argued that the United States was on the wrong side of the Laffer curve in terms of corporate tax rates.

On September 5,2018, Kevin Hassett released new analysis indicating that real wage growth under Trump was higher than reported, despite figures indicating that wage growth had not picked up.

On June 2,2019, it was announced that Kevin Hassett would be stepping down from his role within the coming weeks.

On March 20,2020, it was announced that Kevin Hassett will be returning to the White House on a temporary basis to advise President Trump on economic policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In early-May 2020, Kevin Hassett said there might not be a need for more coronavirus economic relief, invoking the possibility that economies in nearly all states could be re-opened by the end of May When Kevin Hassett's model was released to the public, it was widely criticized by academics and commentators.

Kevin Hassett was reportedly shortlisted for nomination as Chair of the Federal Reserve if former president Donald Trump were to win re-election in 2024.