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, July 31, 2014

Jon Stewart nails corporate tax inversions

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Last night Jon Stewart (h/t BruinKid ) went after tax inversion with style, showing up Republican hypocrisy on welfare programs vs. "c...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Medicare report shows Obamacare is bending the cost curve

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The 2014 Medicare Trustees Report has just been released, and it shows that the program is on noticeably sounder financial footing than it ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Stephen Moore (Heritage, of course) can't even get his cherry-picked data right UPDATED

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If you have had the stomach to read the malarkey that the Heritage Foundation puts out, you have no doubt noticed that many of their publica...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Fun and games with transfer pricing

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ProGrowthLiberal in his comments on my last post and in his own post at EconoSpeak highlights the fact that drug-maker AbbVie already makes...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Unintentional tax humor at Forbes

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David Cay Johnston emailed me that there were errors in Forbes contributor Tim Worstall's recent criticisms of the linked article. Ind...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Corporate "Inversions" Shift the Tax Burden to Us

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Corporate "inversions" are back in the news again, as multinational corporations try every "creative" way they can to g...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Piketty on the minimum wage

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A lot going on with the minimum wage lately, but I will contextualize it first with Thomas Piketty's analysis in Capital in the Twenty-F...
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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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