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Alan Reynolds
Senior Fellow
Alan Reynolds is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute. He served as Research Director with National Commission on Tax Reform and Economic Growth, an advisor to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, and as a member of the OMB transition team in 1981. His studies have been published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and St. Louis and the Australian Stock Exchange. Author of Income and Wealth (Greenwood Press 2006), he has written for numerous publications since 1971 including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Review, The New Republic, Fortune and The Harvard Business Review. A former columnist with Forbes and Reason, his weekly column is now nationally syndicated.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
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E-Mail: areynolds@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
Income and Wealth (2006)
After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy: Chapter 3, "Political Responses to the Enron Scandal," and Chapter 17, "Compensation, Journalism, and Taxes" (2005)
Cato Studies
"Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?," Policy Analysis no. 586, January 8, 2007.
"Deficits, Interest Rates, and Taxes: Myths and Realities," Policy Analysis no. 517, June 29, 2004.
"New Evidence on the Old Phillips Curve," by William A. Niskanen and Alan Reynolds, Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 5, May 1, 2002.
"Do Budget Deficits Raise Long-Term Interest Rates?," Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 1, February 1, 2002.
"Microsoft's Appealing Case," by Robert A. Levy and Alan Reynolds, Policy Analysis no. 385, November 9, 2000.
Articles and Newsletters
"Should Tax Cuts on High Earnings Be Extended?" CQ Researcher, Vol. 20 No. 42, December 2010.
"The Misuse of Economic History: Flawed Analogies with Japan's "Liquidity Trap" and the Great Depression," Cato Journal, Fall 2009.
"Big Government and the Bailout: A Symposium," Claremont Review of Books (Winter 2008/09)
"Crises and Recoveries: Multinational Failures and National Successes," Cato Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2003.
"The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix," Cato Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall 2001.
Opinion and Commentary
"Gingrich's Grandiose Claims about Authoring the Supply-Side Revolution," Forbes, January 31, 2012
"Gingrich Grandiosity And Supply-Side Economics," Huffington Post, January 30, 2012
"Romney's Tax Return: Really Nothing Unusual There," Investor's Business Daily, January 25, 2012
"The Republicans' Holiday Gift to President Obama," Forbes, December 19, 2011
"Soaking the Rich Won't Grow the Economy," U.S. News & World Report, December 16, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"'Professor Cornpone: Ethanol Lobbyist Newt Gingrich—and the Future of the GOP'," January 26, 2012
"The Growing Wealth Gap? Fortune Makes up the Numbers," November 3, 2011
"President Obama's $447 Billion Tax Increase ," September 12, 2011
"Kinks in Obama's Home Refinancing Plans," September 12, 2011
"Note to Charles Krauthammer: Economic Growth Averaged 2.9% (not 5%) under Ike's Military-Industrial Complex," September 9, 2011
Events
"29th Annual Monetary Conference," November 16, 2011 [Conference]
"Economic Stimulus: Facts and Fiction," February 4, 2008 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Has U.S. Income Inequality Increased?," January 11, 2007 [Policy Forum]
"24th Annual Monetary Conference: Federal Reserve Policy in the Face of Crises," November 16, 2006 [Conference]
Speeches and Testimony
"The Increasing Progressivity of U.S. Taxes: And the Shrinking Tax Base," Congressional Testimony, May 3, 2011.
"Taxes and Deficits: A 2008 Perspective," Free Market Forum at Hillsdale College, September 26-28, 2008.
"Taxes and Deficits," Speech, October 7, 2008.
"Monetary Policy by Trial and Error," Presented to Joint Economic Committee, March 2000.
"Toward Meaningful Tax Reform in Japan," Speech, April 6, 1998.
Multimedia
Alan Reynolds critiques the Ronald Mckinnon's Wall Street Journal piece, "The Conservative Case for a Wealth Tax" on KOA's The Mike Rosen Show (January 13, 2012) [Media Highlights - Radio, 34:07]
Alan Reynolds discusses his latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on WBAL's The Ron Smith Show (December 8, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 09:36]
Alan Reynolds discusses his latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on America Now with Andy Dean (December 7, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 10:25]
SuperCommittee Failure in Progress (November 18, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 09:02]
Panel 4: A Program for Monetary Reform with Kevin Dowd and Kurt Schuler (November 16, 2011) [Events, 44:49]
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