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.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Aggressive Tax Planning on the Rise, Says OECD

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"Aggressive tax planning," which I would characterize as  exploitation of tax differences between countries that sits on the edge ...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Swiss Bank Secrecy Reform

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  Reprinted by permission of Mark Morris ...

The Travails of People with Health Insurance Are Not Trivial!

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Austin Carroll at The Incidental Economist has posted what is at least the third installment of his saga to keep getting medication for a ch...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Medical Costs Help Drive United States to Highest Bankruptcy Rate in OECD

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As I have discussed before , medical bills are one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the United States. In fact a 2009 study by David H...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Tax Expenditures Don't Make America Europe

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Via Calculated Risk , Dean Baker takes David Brooks to task for his claim that "America is Europe." Brooks tells us: The U.S. d...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Iceland Solves Banking Crisis by Indicting CEOs, Forcing Mortgage Relief

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Via Mark Thoma's Economist View , I came across an interesting blog on financial regulation called Trust Your Instincts . Lately, the au...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Romney Tax Plan Blows Hole in Budget, Remains Short on Specifics

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Mitt Romney unveiled his tax plan today, but it revealed few surprises except for surprisingly few specifics. Via Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes)...
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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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