McCain and His Tax Cuts
Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 | In Current Market News, Politics & Your Money, Stocks to WatchContributed by: Jeffrey Miller (http://www.oldprof.typepad.com) -
The other day we mentioned Obama raising the Capital Gains Tax, and a reader mentioned how McCain’s tax cuts are better for the economy. So today,we will examine both the plausibility of McCain’s tax cuts and the economic effects of them.
Now no offense to McCain, but just glancing over his site we found numerous mathematical [...]
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Jeffrey A. Miller, Ph.D. is a former college professor with a hands-on, real world attitude. His quantitative modeling helped inform state and local officials in Wisconsin for more than a decade. A Public Policy analyst, he taught advanced research methods at the University of Wisconsin, and analyzed many issues related to state tax policy. In 1987 Jeff began work for market makers at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. His approach included finding anomalies in the standard option pricing models and developing new forecasting techniques. Merging these quantitative techniques with specific company analysis, Jeff also generated trading ideas from sell-side analyst reports. Through his years of experience in trading options, futures and equities, Jeff has come to be regarded as an expert in interpreting the effect of news on the markets and individual stocks. Jeff has served as a forensic expert in several cases involving such issues. He has also written a series of papers on investment management, describing both quantitative methods and those related to behavioral economics. |





