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, September 12, 2012

UBS Whistleblower's Award Reminds Us Romneys Banked at UBS

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Yesterday, the lawyers for Bradley Birkenfeld , the whistleblower in the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) tax evasion case, announced that he...

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Labor Day: U.S. Wages Trail 10 OECD Countries, but with Higher Unemployment than 9 of Them

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Contra Eric Cantor , Labor Day celebrates the importance of labor and the labor movement in American history. But the bluster of Cantor, whe...

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hilarious twist on "You didn't build that!" UPDATED

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The Atlantic Wire (via @NoBigGovDuh) has a great story on the dishonesty of Mitt Romney's "You didn't build that" ads. It...

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Friday, August 24, 2012

Lid Blowing Off Romney Tax Secrecy

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Gawker (via Eman at Daily Kos) dropped a bombshell yesterday when it released over 950 pages of confidential documents from 21 Bain Capita...

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Is the Growth of Manufacturing Production a Mirage?

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A lot of people lament the decline in manufacturing employment, which has fallen by about 1/3 since 2000. As Upjohn Institute economist Sus...

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Most U.S. Trade Agreement Improve Trade Balance, but Effect Overwhelmed by NAFTA and China Trade

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The U.S. trade deficit figures heavily in the analysis of Jeff Faux's new book , The Servant Economy . Faux, the founder of the Economic...

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

U.S. Trade Deficit Largely Due to "Intra-Firm" Trade (UPDATED)

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The vast majority of the U.S. $727 billion trade deficit in goods for 2011 is due to "intra-firm" or "related party" tra...

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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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