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.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Romney Gets Incoherent on Pre-Existing Conditions

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Mitt Romney was on the Jay Leno Show last night (via @didkins4life) and gave a completely incoherent account of whether people with pre-exi...

The Best Data on Middle Class Decline (Updated)

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The flurry of posts earlier this month on middle class decline ( me , Lane Kenworthy , Matthew Yglesias , Kevin Drum ) made me think some mo...

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Apple Whines About Having to Pay Taxes

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On Monday, Apple announced that it was going to start paying dividends to shareholders, and buy back $10 billion worth of stock. What caugh...

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Basics: Real Wages Remain Below Their Peak for 39th Straight Year

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The release last month of the Economic Report of the President has elicited a great deal of commentary, but none that I have seen touches o...

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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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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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