John Tamny
Political Economy Editor, Forbes
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John Tamny
Biography
John Tamny is Vice President at FreedomWorks, editor of RealClearMarkets, and Senior Economic Adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group. He frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and RealClearMarkets. Tamny is the author of six books. His latest is The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution (All Seasons Press). Others are Popular Economics (Regnery, 2015), a primer on economics, Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter Books, 2016) about the central bank's onrushing economic irrelevance, The End of Work (Regnery, 2018), which discusses the exciting evolution of jobs that don't feel at all like work, 2019's They're Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers (AIER), and When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason (Post Hill Press).
Tamny received a BA in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, and MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.
John Tamny
Featured Keynote Programs
Why Washington and Wall Street Are Better Off Living Apart.
The tight relationship between Washington and Wall Street is mutually destructive for both. “It’s the economy, stupid” says politics, and yet, the close link between finance and government restrains economic growth by virtue of it politicizing investment. Worse, the ties between finance and government make the bailouts of troubled financial institutions much more likely. The latter greatly weaken the financial sector, all the while inflaming an electorate that views bailouts as evidence of favoritism. This talk will show why the popularity and health of Wall Street and Washington will soar if the two create major distance between themselves.
Government Barriers to Economic Growth
How Government Error Gave Us the Great Depression, the Financial Crisis, and the Great Recession
The history books are filled with mistaken assumptions about not just the causes of the Great Depression, but also what got us out. Much the same describes the early explanations of 2008 and the difficult recession that followed. This talk will simplify what has been made opaque, while showing that all three major economic events were wholly unnatural effects of bad bipartisan policy error from Washington, D.C.
Do We Really Need the Federal Reserve? Addressing the Pros and Cons of ‘End the Fed’
Global economic troubles since 2008 have put central banks, and in particular the Federal Reserve, on watch. More and more people are asking if we need a Fed at all, and others, if the Fed acts contrary to collective interests. To the average person, low unemployment and a booming economy are the ideal we should constantly aspire to. Not so to members of the Federal Reserve and other global central banks. They are very explicit in their view that low unemployment and soaring economic growth cause labor and manufacturing shortages that lead to inflation. This talk will address the perceived pros and cons of a central bank—and specifically address central bank models of inflation—in a global context to conclude whether the Fed is essential, dangerous or superfluous.
What’s Going on in the Economy and Why Economic Growth Is So Easy to Achieve
Modern economists act as though economic growth is mysterious and hard to achieve. In fact, nothing could be easier than economic growth. It’s as simple as getting four basic inputs—taxes, regulation, trade and monetary policy—correct. This talk will describe the basics to growth, and then apply them to the present economy to show what is holding it back when it’s slow, and what’s causing it to boom when the economy is soaring.