John Tepper Marlin is Principal of CityEconomist
and Publisher of Boissevain Books. From April
2009 to May 2011 he was working as Senior
Economist at the Joint Economic Committee in
Washington, DC. In the fall semester of 2011-12
he is teaching economics to MPA students at Pace
University. He has also been teaching a course
on CSR to MBA and MPA students as Adjunct
Professor at NYU's Stern School of Business.
From 1992 to 2006 he was Chief Economist in the
Office of the New York City Comptroller.
A graduate of Harvard (A.B. cum laude), Oxford
(BA, MA) and George Washington (Ph.D. in
economics) Universities, his first full-time job
was as a financial economist in Washington, D.C.
with the Federal Reserve Board, the Small
Business Administration and Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. For 20 years he served as
President and CEO of the Council on Municipal
Performance and JTM Reports.
His writing includes serving as principal writer
of Harvard's Let’s Go Guide to Europe,
which became a best-selling series. He founded
and was editor of the first two issues of the
Journal of Financial Education. His
books include The Book of American City
Rankings, Cities of Opportunity, Building a
Peace Economy and Contracting Municipal Services.
His 2008 case study of Topkapi Iplik, a textile
plant in Turkey is one of a group of three in a
CIPE-SAI report on implementing workplace
standards . His article on the “No Dirty
Gold Campaign,” appears in the second volume of
the
Journal of Economists for Peace and Security,
June 2006. The New York Times has
published four of his op eds, and others have
appeared in Newsday and The Asian
Wall Street Journal.
He has received awards for an article with
Jurgen Brauer on estimating a peace gross world
product (2011), for an article with Janine Berg
and Farid Heydarpour on optimal tax mix (2002),
and for a paper for the NYC Comptroller;s Office
on estimating the economic impact of 9/11
(2001).
I'm reading about the arrest in London of Kweku
Adoboli of the Swiss investment bank UBS. I'm at
the Randolph Hotel in Oxford, overlooking
Balliol College. I'm here for the Oxford
University Reunion Weekend -- 49 years since I
matriculated.
It seems that Mr. Adoboli, the young UBS
trader, made...
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August 29, 2011 | 07:14
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A day after Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a
tropical storm,
38 fatalities have been reported. Each of
these deaths represents a great loss for their
survivors. Fatalities are also a guide to the
economic impact of the disaster.
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August 26, 2011 | 10:34
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The country is stuck in a liquidity paralysis.
The Tea Party's debt exorcisers are pushing
their case too hard at the wrong time. President
Obama continues to have a big challenge to get
the country moving again.
Yet there may be hope at the state and local
level. The...
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the
Soviet Union disintegrated, many of us looked
forward to a Peace Dividend, a reduction in
military spending that would allow more U.S.
Government spending on public needs like health
care or education, or tax cuts, or a
combination.
As the Democratic administration wrestles with
huge U.S. economic problems, officials can take
comfort in the fact that they have an easy act
to follow. The numbers are in, and under Bush 43
only four U.S. states beat the average long-term
growth rate. The four "winner" states that did
better...
At
dinner this week I had a chance to quiz Georg
Kell about the UN's Global Compact. Georg is
Executive Director of the UN Global Compact.
What is his mission? He told...
Public concern is fully warranted over the high
and rising 8.1 percent unemployment rate
reported for February. In fact, the true pain is
closer to double what is reported. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics routinely provides the data to
report the higher rate. The standard
unemployment rate averaged 5.8 percent...
The U.S. financial meltdown has created a
worldwide crisis. Ironically, worldwide scared
money is still flowing into U.S. Treasury
obligations as a safe haven. This permits more
U.S. borrowing, but by drying up credit overseas
creates financial crises in other countries.
The U.S. economy lost 651,000 more jobs (nonfarm
payroll) in February, says the BLS, for a
cumulative loss of 2.6 million in the past four
months. The unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to
8.1 percent.
These numbers were anticipated by the stock
market to some extent yesterday. The market
is...
If you thought the inflation dragon was has been
reliably slain (or at least temporarily exiled)
by the St. George of reduced demand, consider
that the record increase in unit labor costs in
the fourth quarter of 2008 was revised up.
Dennis Blair, Obama's director of national
intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Friday that based on reports from
the nation's 16 intelligence agencies, the
global recession is now the country's
top security concern.
Unrest overseas, he says, would be a threat
worse than terrorism. He said:
Today is both the 200th birthday of Abraham
Lincoln and the 100th birthday of the NAACP.
When the NAACP was founded in 1909, the
number of faithful Lincoln Republicans was
dwindling, but John E. Milholland was one,
an Irish-American and a Presbyterian> He
became the NAACP's first Treasurer and...
My San Francisco friend Michael Phillips advised
me today by email that he is telling his
colleagues to worry less about big powerful
multinationals and more about despots of rogue
states.
...
Four of HuffPost's staffers were on offer at
Manhattan's 92nd Street Y February 5. This panel
discussion is billed as giving the lowdown on
"How they choose the stories that make the news"
and "their insights into blogging, including
what blogs they link to and why, what content
gets blogs...
President Obama is committed to creating five
million new green jobs via subsidizing energy
alternatives and conservation with an estimated
$100 billion of the stimulus bill. The same kind
of commitment is occurring at the New York State
and City levels. On January 26 New York's
Governor David Paterson
BBC News is running a
medical care story today
that has implications for U.S. medical care.
Residents who are put on a shorter 48 hour/week
limit, in accordance with European Union
regulations, made 33 percent fewer medical
errors than those...
Thank you if you contacted BBC about allowing
the U.S. Health Care show produced by Panorama
to be downloadable in the United States. It
worked. Just received this message from BBC
Panorama:
Dear John, Thank you for your email. Due to
high demand, we have now made the programme
available...
As the Congress considers a stimulus package,
let the new job numbers be heard throughout the
Capitol, as reported by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics this morning. Unemployment rates in
December were higher for every state and the
District of Columbia, whether measured in
comparison with November or with the...
My sister Brigid Marlin lives in the UK and a
few days ago was watching a BBC program on
health care in the United States. Brigid is not
a public affairs junkie so I was interested when
she sent me an email reporting that the program
was a shocking portrayal...
