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Alan Cole
Senior Economist
Alan Cole is a Senior Economist with Tax Foundation’s Center for Federal Tax Policy. His areas of focus include business taxes, cross-border taxes, and macroeconomics.
In addition to work at Tax Foundation, Alan Cole has served on the Joint Economic Committee and with The Conference Board, and published on a variety of economic topics. Alan has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University and an MBA majoring in finance and public policy from the Wharton School. Alan lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.
Latest Work
The Problem with Free Stuff
2 min readDynamic Scoring Stands Up to Criticism
2 min readConfusing Income with Taxable Income
2 min readTax Extenders: Take Them or Leave Them
2 min readObamacare’s Contradictory Tax Incentives
3 min readThe Case Against “Jobs Day”
3 min read
Losing the Future: The Decline of U.S. Saving and Investment
Saving and investment are necessary for a society to adequately provide for its future. Saving and investment have declined substantially as a percentage of GDP over the last 40 years. American private saving barely keeps pace with total government deficits. On the whole, the country saves very little. American investment barely keeps pace with depreciation; U.S. private and public capital stock and infrastructure deteriorates almost as quickly as it can be repaired or replaced with new investment.
15 min read