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About James K. Glassman
James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington public policy think tank, where he specializes in issues involving economics, technology and financial markets. He is also host of TechCentralStation.com, a public affairs website that concentrates on matters of technology and public policy.
He also writes a syndicated financial column, which appears on the front page of the business section of the Washington Post every Sunday and is published in other newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the International Herald Tribune.
He is the author of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown), published in January 2002. He is a popular speaker on economic, political and investing topics.
From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Glassman was editor and part-owner of Roll Call, the twice-weekly newspaper that covers Congress. Prior to that, he had a long career in magazine publishing -- as president of the Atlantic Monthly, executive vice president of U.S.News & World Report and publisher of the New Republic.
He has also had extensive television experience - as host of two weekly series, Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS. He has been a guest on ABC's Nightline, CNN's Crossfire, PBS's Charlie Rose Show, CNN's Larry King Show, and others. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Forbes, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others. He was formerly executive editor of the Washingtonian magazine, editor and publisher of the Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate and of Figaro, a newspaper he founded in New Orleans shortly after graduating from college.
Mr. Glassman has given frequent congressional testimony, recently on subjects as varied as telecommunications policy, Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Social Security reform, and personal investing.
His first book Dow 36,000 (Times Books), a bestseller co-authored with the economist Kevin Hassett, was praised by Newsweek's Allan Sloan for its "wonderfully clear explanations of financial theory [and] excellent advice on general investing approaches."
He is the recipient of, among other honors, the Norman B. Ture Award of the Tax Foundation for contribution toward sound tax policy and the Warren Brookes Award of the American Legislative Exchange Council for distinguished journalism.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was managing editor of the university daily, The Crimson. He has two daughters and lives in New York and Falls Village, Conn.
Articles by James K. Glassman
Oil Company Profits and The Senator From Windfall (December 5, 2005)
Cantwell's Senate seat itself is a "windfall profit."
Three Huge Automatic Tax Increases -- Courtesy of Congress (November 28, 2005)
Congress is about to do severe harm to the U.S. economy if it fails to act in the next few months to stop three huge automatic tax increases.
Interview: Dan Yergin on Energy Prices and Policies (November 11, 2005)
The big problem is not a lack of cash; it is the regulatory and permitting process that makes it very difficult to do almost anything new and significant in refineries and certainly makes it almost impossible to build a new refinery.
"Windfall Profits Tax " Will Increase the Price of Oil (November 1, 2005)
It's tough enough to make investment decisions in anticipation of market conditions that can change overnight, but why spend vast sums to develop energy if -- as a reward -- government hits you with a special tax? So, with a WPT, oil companies cut back.
When to Sell a Stock (September 27, 2005)
Sell if something has gone wrong with the business itself.
"Windfall Profits" Tax on Oil Companies (September 26, 2005)
Why risk spending vast sums to develop energy if -- as a reward -- government hits you with a special tax?
Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. Roy Spencer (September 14, 2005)
Was hurricane Katrina in any way manmade?
Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Dr. James J. O'Brien (September 13, 2005)
Does global warming have an affect on the intensity of hurricanes?
Hurricanes and Global Warming: Interview with Meteorologist Dr. William Gray (September 12, 2005)
"I mean, there's almost an equation you can write the degree to which you believe global warming is causing major hurricanes to increase is inversely proportional to your knowledge about these storms."
JobBay (September 8, 2005)
As much of Europe struggles with double-digit unemployment this year, the United States has been creating an average of 200,000 new jobs a month. One of our great advantages is the relative ease with which Americans can start new businesses.
How to Avoid Investing in Crooked Businesses (September 5, 2005)
How on earth could an amateur investor discern the true value of Enron? Or of WorldCom, a company whose fraudsters registered billions of dollars in operating expenses as capital investments, thus boosting profits in the short term?
Hurricane Katrina and Global Warming (September 3, 2005)
Katrina has nothing to do with global warming.
The Axis of IP Evil (August 10, 2005)
Intellectual property -- in the form of drug formulas, software, business processes, entertainment, even handbag design -- is the foundation of our prosperity. To leave IP defenseless in nations like Brazil is to put America's future at risk. Crack down now.
CNOOC Acquiring Unocal: What's All The Fuss? (July 14, 2005)
Should Americans worry that the Chinese want to buy one of our energy companies?
Housing Bubbles (May 24, 2005)
Certainly, individual housing markets can suffer boom-and-bust cycles. (Look at Houston during the 1970s and California during the 1980s.) But real estate prices as a whole have been remarkably stable.
The Bottomless Well: No Need To Curb Energy Consumption (May 19, 2005)
There's no public-policy topic more prone to intellectual abuse than energy.
Death Tax Returns In 2011 (May 13, 2005)
Whether an inheritance is good or bad for your kids, however, is a decision that you -- not the government -- should have the freedom and responsibility to make.
Amtrak is Anti-American (April 8, 2005)
The irony is that, while the United States preaches free-market economics, it runs a retrograde socialist-style rail system while the rest of the world -- Argentina, Poland, South Korea, Germany are just a few of the nations cited by Vranich -- is privatizing.
Debating Social Security (March 10, 2005)
It's time to take the gloves off and start slugging it out over principle.
AARP Invests in Hypocrisy (March 7, 2005)
AARP is talking out of both sides of its mouth. It says that stock and bond investing is like playing a slot machine at the same time it promotes stock and bond investing by selling 38 mutual funds to its members and taking a cut from each sale.
Economic Girlie-Men of the Right (September 13, 2004)
Some of the worst of the economic girlie-men are in President Bush's own party.
Kerry Way Ahead in New Poll... (September 10, 2004)
...of non-Americans.
American Unemployment and Elections (September 3, 2004)
The new U.S. unemployment rate is about half that of France and Germany.
Market Myth: Worst Economy Since The Great Depression? (September 2, 2004)
To hear John Kerry tell it, America is mired today in the worst economy since the Great Depression. How dumb does he think voters are?
Pessimism About the Economy (August 24, 2004)
My own view is that the U.S. economy is strong, and, rather than weakening, it will get stronger as the year goes on. Our problems right now are oil prices, which experts expect to decline, and stock prices, which react negatively when Kerry's fortunes rise.
Simple Rules for a Complex Market (August 14, 2004)
Although investing is a subtle and complicated endeavor, everyone can benefit from a simple set of rules and principles. One of my favorite portfolio managers, Thomas K. Brown, chief executive of Second Curve Capital, a New York hedge fund that specializes in financial stocks, recently sent clients a little booklet called "My Ten Rules," guidelines for building "a long-term successful track record."
Bullish on Asia (August 9, 2004)
The problem with Asia for investors, however, is that, with the exception of Japan, the stock markets "are relatively undeveloped," with widespread unfair trading practices and low liquidity. This means that risks are high, but then so are rewards.
The New York Times: Newspaper of Broken Record (August 7, 2004)
The New York Times is an important institution that is degenerating into a close-minded small-town paper with a giant megaphone.
Complacent Europe (June 26, 2004)
Americans are happier and more optimistic than Europeans, and we have reason to be.
Will Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" Defeat a President? (June 25, 2004)
Constructive criticism is always warranted. The sad truth, however, is that the left is so intellectually bereft at this point in its history that the buffoonery of Michael Moore is about all they've got. So they're promoting it like crazy.
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