19 News Items Found
October 24, 2022
What’s Behind That Social Security Cost-of-living Boost?
What factors are behind the Social Security cost-of-living boost — the biggest cost-of-living adjustment since 1981? John Diamond, the director of the Center for Public Finance, answers this question and explains the history of Social Security COL increases in a new commentary.
August 4, 2022
The State of the Economy: A Possible Recession?
What's driving ongoing inflation, and what's needed to curb it? Public finance fellow John Diamond joined Town Square Talk to discuss.
July 15, 2022
As Inflation Rises, Economists Expect Another Interest Rate Hike
Why has inflation continued to rise, despite the Federal Reserve raising interest rates? "It's worrisome," said public finance fellow John Diamond. "The risk the Fed faces is they want to get price increases under control, without throwing the economy into a complete tailspin or into a recession."
Read more at Fox26 News. January 6, 2022
A Smaller Energy Industry Won't Decimate Texas Public Ed Funding
"Contrary to what we sometimes hear, the sky isn’t falling, renewables won’t cause public education funding to crater and there are multiple possible solutions to fill this modest gap," wrote public finance fellows John Diamond and Jorge Barro.
Read more at The Dallas Morning News. September 15, 2021
Business Groups Fighting Proposed Corporate Tax Hike
USA Today cited a Baker Institute study on the possible effects of increasing the corporate tax rate to 28%, co-authored by public finance fellow John Diamond and Rice economics chair George Zodrow.
Diamond is the Baker Institute's Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of its Center for Public Finance.
Zodrow is Rice's Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics and a Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar.
Read more here.