Economics Writer and Journalist
National Affairs, Spring 2025
Rural poverty rates in America have remained high largely because well-meaning attempts to reduce them have involved separate, uncoordinated policies thrown haphazardly at the problem. By instead considering their options in full and recognizing how each might build on the others — especially in light of new developments in the energy sector — policymakers could grasp that they confront a moment of opportunity not to be missed.
National Affairs, Fall 2024
Christmas of 1989 was a good one for me. I had just secured my first adult job as a credit analyst with a community bank in Klein, Texas. Ronald Reagan had left office less than a year earlier. Global communism was imploding. And deregulation was moving forward in multiple American industries — including a banking system that, thanks to decades of technological and financial innovation, was chafing against the rules imposed by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933….
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