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Donald Marron is an economist in the Washington, DC area. He currently speaks, writes, and consults about economic, budget, and financial issues.

From 2002 to early 2009, he served in various senior positions in the White House and Congress including: * Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) * Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) * Executive Director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee (JEC)

Before his government service, Donald had a varied career as a professor, consultant, and entrepreneur. In the mid-1990s, he taught economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He then spent about a year-and-a-half managing large antitrust cases (e.g., Pepsi vs. Coke) at Charles River Associates in Washington, DC. After that, he took the plunge into the world of new ventures, serving as Chief Financial Officer of a health care software start-up in Austin, TX. After that fascinating experience, he started his career in public service.

Donald received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in Mathematics a couple miles down the road at Harvard.

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Donald Marron's Latest Articles | 244

Do Federal Workers Get Paid More Than Private Ones?

Jan 31, 2012| 

Yes, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. As always in such comparisons, however, there are some caveats. CBO summarizes its main results... Read »

Capital Gains Taxes Are Going Up

Jan 24, 2012| 

The top tax rate on long-term capital gains is currently 15%. That’s why Mitt Romney is spending so much time talking about his tax returns. That revelation has... Read »

Oil and Natural Gas Prices Move Even Further Apart

Jan 10, 2012| 

In 2010, I wrote a series of posts documenting how oil and natural prices had decoupled from each other (see here and here). For many years, oil prices (as measured... Read »

Getting Better But a Long Way to Go

Jan 7, 2012| 1

Friday’s jobs data confirmed that labor markets are getting better, but slowly. Payrolls expanded by 200,000, the unemployment rate fell again to 8.5%, weekly... Read »

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure Correctly, NYC Crime Edition

Jan 2, 2012| 

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. That’s good advice, as far as it goes. But it has a dark underside: managing the measurement rather than actual outcomes. Over... Read »

Time’s Almost Up for $152 Billion in Expiring Provisions

Dec 12, 2011| 

America is increasingly governed by temporary policies. The 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts get most of the attention, but they are hardly the only ones. There are also... Read »

Netflix (NFLX) and the Benefit of Flip Flopping

Oct 11, 2011| 

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix (NFLX), gave subscribers some good news yesterday: We are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means... Read »

How Apple (AAPL) Sends Back Technology from the Future

Oct 6, 2011| 1

Over on Quora, an anonymous author has a fascinating post about another dimension of Apple’s and Steve Jobs’ brilliance–managing its supply chain: Apple has... Read »

Health Reform and Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums

Sep 28, 2011| 

Family health insurance premiums surged 9% in 2011 according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s the fastest health insurance inflation since... Read »

Who Owns the Debt of Six Indebted Countries

Sep 27, 2011| 

The IMF’s latest Fiscal Monitor includes a colorful chart of who owns the debt of six countries with well-known debt concerns: The debt owned by foreign investors... Read »

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