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, October 17, 2013

Median Wealth Increases, but U.S. Still Stuck at 27th in World

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The new Global Wealth Report and Global Wealth Databook from Credit Suisse were released last week. According to the Report (p. 3), Glob...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Governing Through Ungovernability

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It's 2011 all over again. House Republicans are once more threatening to force the country into default by not raising the government...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

A $1000/month pension equals $200,000 in savings CORRECTED

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On the road today, but my wife referred me to this article by Lynn Parramore* (originally published here ) on how the 401(k) "revoluti...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Nauseating Health Care Idiocy from Forbes

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A non-blogging friend points me to this new article at Forbes by Chris Conover purporting to show that the "typical family of 4"...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

New Jersey Subsidies Get Even Worse

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As if New Jersey's subsidies weren't bad enough already , Leigh McIlvaine at Good Jobs First reports that the state has just passed...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

New Jersey Subsidies More Out of Control than Ever Under Christie

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I have written before how state and local subsidies are more out of control than ever, and more recently how the number and size of megadea...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

We're #194!

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I recently learned that a company called Onalytica calculates the influence of economics blogs, using the model of impact factors for academ...
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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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