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.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Tax Justice Network Inaugurates Podcast Series, TaxCast

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The Tax Justice Network has just begun making podcasts on issues of tax havens, tax evasion, and so forth. Called TaxCast , the first podcas...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Expensive Subsidies Help State and Local Governments Drag Down Recovery

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The release of gross domestic product data on Friday highlighted how the contraction of state and local governments has been a drag on econo...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Basics: America's Relative Decline in Health in One Table

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I've reported before on how the U.S. has seen less life expectancy growth than other rich countries, while at the same time increasing ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Jon Stewart Delivers the Goods on Mitt Romney's Taxes

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Mitt Romney claims to simply have been following the law in how he paid his taxes for 2010 and 2011. As we have seen, he was able to use the...
Monday, January 23, 2012

New Reports Highlight Bad Companies, Variable State Subsidy Enforcement

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In case you missed it, two reports came out last week highlighting two of my favorite topics, tax havens/tax avoidance and economic developm...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Feedburner Feeds Now Available

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I've been doing some technical updating this weekend. As a result, you can now subscribe through Feedburner in your reader or via email....
Friday, January 20, 2012

Romney's Cayman Explanations Don't Tell the Whole Story, Says Tax Haven Expert

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Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo has a story purporting to tell us the "real deal" on Mitt Romney's investments in secret...
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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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