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 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.
(Source:
TechCentralStation.com)
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Quotable
"In
Hartford, Connecticut, near my home, there are now 366,000 broadband
subscribers, an increase of 198 percent in 12 months. This growth comes
as the result of competition...
"But
are these figures really so great? As a good libertarian, I am agnostic
on the question. I set no goal for broadband subscribers, just as I set
no goal for the number of people who should go to the latest Adam
Sandler movie or should buy butter as opposed to margarine.
"It is only central planners -- the kind of people that Friedrich
von Hayek…railed against -- who make such claims. They are the people
who believe that the word "should" applies to economics"
--
"Well Enough Alone," column by James Glassman, Nov. 25,
2002"
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