Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Jamie Dimon Poll and Follow-Up

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The poll results are in on whether Jamie Dimon will resign from the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. By a 53%-40% majority, with ...

Friday, May 18, 2012

Kabuki Theater Probably Won't Shake Up NY Fed

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Via @MarkThoma, Simon Johnson reports that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has called (very diplomatically, of course) for JP Morgan Chase ...

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Inflation is Neither as Boring Nor as Simple as it Seems

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One nice thing about Dean Baker's new book, The End of Loser Liberalism , is that it puts the Federal Reserve Bank and inflation un...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.

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