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.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Ted Cruz's Tax Haven Past

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A version of this post was previously published at US News and World Report's "Economic Intelligence" blog: http://www.usnews....
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Columbia U. Conference on Investment Incentives

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On November 13 and 14, the 8th Annual Columbia International Investment Conference will be held in New York City. Sponsored by the Vale Col...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Irish Austerity Exodus Continues

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The Eurozone experiment in austerity continues to fail as the peripheral countries endure ongoing cuts. Following up on my post of August 15...
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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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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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