I am a Senior Research Fellow at AIER, Associate Director of the Entangled Political Economy Research Network, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. Previously, I was an economics professor at Aquinas College, Troy University, and Ferris State University, a Fellow with the US Senate Committee on the Budget, and I have worked for the US Joint Economic Committee.My popular writing covers international trade, tariffs, trade deficits, national debt, public finance, and taxation. My work has appeared in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Law & Liberty, The Hill, The Daily Caller, and The Ripon Forum. My academic writing focuses on Entangled Political Economy and applications to public finance. There, my work has appeared in outlets such as Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, The Journal of Public Finance & Public Choice, and The Journal of Private Enterprise.