Handing out in-depth analysis & folksy wisdom in equal measure.
My goal is to give you good people some objective and pragmatic explanations of the economic issues facing our great nation today. I don't give two hoots whether an idea is from a Republican, Democrat, Whig, Presbyterian, Buddhist, Rastafarian, or even one of them Eastern dandies. If it's logical and reasonable, then I'm as happy as a weasel in a hen house to tell you all about it.
Please peruse the resources below.
Informational videos (on the youtubes)
Be sure to check out my YouTube channel, where I post both Cowboy Economist insights
and classroom lectures. I wouldn't worry so much about the latter as I have to pretend I'm a
boring college professor in those. Apparently, I'm pretty good at that.
In this sample video I teach you how to spot a socialist:
This'll take you to my YouTube channel:
Pragmatic ponderings (hosted by Forbes.com)
The good folks at Forbes.com have been hosting a blog for me for going on a decade.
There, you will find my musings about such issues as the debt and deficit (turns out the US can't
possibly go bankrupt--of course not, we're AMERICA!), Social Security solvency (only the
politicians could destroy it), and the economics discipline (I'm embarrassed to say that it
contributed to the Financial Crisis of 2008).
I have a lot of thoughts while I'm riding the fence line, looking for strays and
rustlers. I've written some of these down in book form.
I wrote this one to explain different schools of thought in economics and why we should
be allowing students to learn more about them. It's a relatively easy read (click on the picture to
go to the Amazon page):
I wrote this one to explain how currency prices fluctuate. It's fairly technical and not an
easy read (click on the picture to go to the Amazon page):
Here's my Amazon author page it also includes a couple of volumes I edited with my
pardners:
Scholarly Stuff (on ResearchGate.com)
When I'm not writing for decent, common folk, I sometimes put pen to paper and hash
it out with those Eastern dandies. I believe I have--in my humble opinion--been able to
masquerade as one of them quite well. My favorite topics are exchange rates, business cycles,
and why they are dandies.
When I wind down in the evening with a cold mug of beer next to our roaring fireplace,
I sometimes like to get on my TRS-80 computer and communicate with my friends and
colleagues via the World Wide Web. Please find below links to my Cowboy Economist
Facebook and Twitter accounts, plus my professional home page at Texas Christian
University.
