Rice University public finance and tax expert available to comment on federal budget and debt ceiling

David Ruth
713-348-6327
druth@rice.edu

Rice University public finance and tax expert available to comment on federal budget and debt ceiling

John Diamond, a fellow in public finance at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is available to comment on the ongoing negotiations between the White House and Congress on the federal budget, debt ceiling and possible government shutdown deadline of Aug. 2.

Diamond recently authored an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle titled ”A plan to move past the debt status quo.” He wrote, “The result of the ensuing debate should include both short-term cuts in deficits and long-term, meaningful constraints on future budget policies.” To read the full op/ed, visit www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7657598.html#ixzz1TLQ1XuCP.

To schedule an interview with Diamond, contact David Ruth, director of national media relations at Rice’s Baker Institute, at druth@rice.edu or 713-348-6327.

More on Diamond:

Diamond is also an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax Policy Advisers LLC. His research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, state and local public finance, and the construction and simulation of computable general equilibrium models. His current research focuses on the economic effects of corporate tax reform, the economic and distributional effects of fundamental tax reform, individual portfolio allocation in the 2000s, and various other tax policy issues. He is co-editor of ”Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications” (The MIT Press, 2008).

Diamond is the forum editor for the National Tax Journal and has served on the Joint Committee on Taxation, United States Congress (2000-2004). He has also served as a consultant on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs to the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000.