AboutJerry Bowyer, Author at Affluent Christian Investor
Jerry Bowyer
Jerry Bowyer is a Forbes contributor, contributing editor of AffluentInvestor.com, and Senior Fellow in Business Economics at The Center for Cultural Leadership. Jerry has compiled an impressive record as a leading thinker in finance and economics. He worked as an auditor and a tax consultant with Arthur Anderson, as Vice President of the Beechwood Company which is the family office associated with Federated Investors, and has consulted in various privatization efforts for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He founded the influential economic think tank, the Allegheny Institute, and has lectured extensively at universities, businesses and civic groups. Jerry has been a member of three investment committees, among which is Benchmark Financial, Pittsburgh’s largest financial services firm. Jerry had been a regular commentator on Fox Business News and Fox News. He was formerly a CNBC Contributor, has guest-hosted “The Kudlow Report”, and has written for CNBC.com, National Review Online, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as many other publications. He is the author of The Bush Boom and more recently The Free Market Capitalist’s Survival Guide, published by HarperCollins. Jerry is the President of Bowyer Research. Jerry consulted extensively with the Bush White House on matters pertaining to the recent economic crisis. He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, The International Herald Tribune and various local newspapers. He has been a contributing editor of National Review Online, The New York Sun and Townhall Magazine. Jerry has hosted daily radio and TV programs and was one of the founding members of WQED’s On-Q Friday Roundtable. He has guest-hosted the Bill Bennett radio program as well as radio programs in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Jerry is the former host of WorldView, a nationally syndicated Sunday-morning political talk show created on the model of Meet The Press. On WorldView, Jerry interviewed distinguished guests including the Vice President, Treasury Secretary, HUD Secretary, former Secretary of Sate Condoleezza Rice, former Presidential Advisor Carl Rove, former Attorney General Edwin Meese and publisher Steve Forbes. Jerry has taught social ethics at Ottawa Theological Hall, public policy at Saint Vincent’s College, and guest lectured at Carnegie Mellon’s graduate Heinz School of Public Policy. In 1997 Jerry gave the commencement address at his alma mater, Robert Morris University. He was the youngest speaker in the history of the school, and the school received more requests for transcripts of Jerry’s speech than at any other time in its 120-year history. Jerry lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan, and the youngest three of their seven children.
Biblical Economics & Finance: Balancing Investment & Consumption
This article provides a biblically rooted view of wealth creation and investing. It originates from a document written for Ronald Blue & Co. (now Ronald Blue Trust) in helping create their Principles-Based Investing philosophy. The original document’s primary contributors … Read More
Biblical Economics & Finance: An Introduction To Wealth
This article provides a biblically rooted view of wealth creation and investing. It originates from a document written for Ronald Blue & Co. (now Ronald Blue Trust) in helping create their Principles-Based Investing philosophy. The original document’s primary contributors … Read More
What Does Jesus Teach About Investing?
Jesus talks about investment in his parables.
The first thing Jesus says about investing is something which He doesn’t explicitly say, but implies: that is, that investment is permitted, and even good. This is implied by the fact that Jesus … Read More
Remember The Media’s Obsession With This Recession Metric?
It’s called the inverted yield curve, and it happens when the 10-year treasury interest rate goes lower than the 3-month interest rate. Why should that matter? Because it tends to occur when markets believe that the Fed is going … Read More
Jesus’ Debt Warnings, Pt. 2: Torah And Debt Release
Let’s take a closer look at the Torah debt remittance rules.
“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts.
2 “And this is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to … Read More
Jesus’ Debt Warnings, Pt. 1: “The Serpent Indebted Me”
Did Jesus talk about debt? The Bible talks about it: Torah has a considerable amount of material about debt and debt remission. Proverbs has warnings about it, and Paul seems to have at least one comment discouraging it, but … Read More
By Persecuting Christians, Xi Is Risking His Own Regime
The Chinese government is responding to the rapid growth of Christianity in that country with violence and oppression, in an attempt to consolidate power. But that is exactly the wrong response. We at Bowyer Research urge President Xi Jinping to study … Read More
Last Quarter Markets Got De-FAANGed
The chart below shows that for several years, growth stocks strongly outperformed value stocks. In plain terms, that means that already expensive stocks got very expensive, and already very expensive stocks then went on to get very, very expensive.
(*Growth in blue; value in orange.)
That … Read More
One Year Later And The Trump Tax Cut Boom Seems To Be Petering Out
The data show the trend in GDP quarterly growth from the time of the initial recovery to the latest available data.
The data clearly show the lackluster nature of the recovery from the great recession after a very short-lived … Read More
Why Big Funds Overlook Places Like Columbus And Why They Shouldn’t
A recent article in City Journal summarizes Columbus, Ohio’s job growth success:
“Nine years ago, when the Columbus Partnership, an organization of 65 Central Ohio CEOs, launched the Columbus 2020 initiative, which sought to add 150,000 new jobs to the regional … Read More
AD or ADD: 2019 Years From What?
2019 years from what? Most people still know (I hope) what event initiates our calendar. Few people know why. That’s because we have, long ago, stopped paying attention to history.
One of the reasons that it’s so hard to … Read More
No, Washington Post, The Virgin Mary Was Not A Socialist!
Recently Acts of Faith, which is a religious news and opinion page run by the Washington Post, published an article which argued that evangelical Christians avoided the Magnificat (the poem/song uttered by the Virgin Mary during her visit to her cousin, Elizabeth) … Read More
The Economic Philosophy Of The Virgin Mary
The events depicted in the Gospels occur in a certain place and a certain time. The announcements of the angels, the visions, the prophecies offered by characters in them, the actions and statements of Jesus, and later the miracles of … Read More
Why Latest Facebook Scandal Doesn’t Shock Us
is in the midst of another major sell-off after The New York Times reported that allegedly made private, personal messages of its users available to companies such as Microsoft and Netflix. According to the report, this practice started … Read More
Mary And The Wise Guy: Why I Wish Christopher Hitchens Had Known More History
It’s a clever line. When Christopher Hitchens used to slam Christianity he did it with style. “If we lost all our hard-won knowledge and all our archives, and all our ethics and all our morals…and had to reconstruct everything essential … Read More
How Charles Dickens Put A Holly Branch Through The Heart Of The Worst Economics Ever
Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: … Read More
Christmas Bells vs. Bell Curve Economics
The Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails. Event distributions have been getting a lot of attention over the past several years, especially their tails.
It used … Read More
Ingratitude, The Destroyer Of Nations; Thanksgiving, The Restorer Of Nations
I hope this helps you to understand what’s going on in our time:
Civic gratitude is not only a virtue, but that it is a nation’s most necessary virtue. History bears that out. Rome was the greatest empire in … Read More
How Bolsonaro Effect Saved Brazil’s Plunging Markets
Last quarter, the investible (meaning the emerging market category and above, with highly liquid markets with readily investible publicly traded stock market indices) world’s highest returning countries were:
- Poland
- Thailand
- Mexico
- Sweden
- Norway
- Switzerland
- Israel
- United States
The … Read More
Poland Drops Holocaust Collaboration Denial Bill And Goes Back To Being World’s Best Performer
The map at the top of this article represents total return of various stock market indices around the world. It includes both capital gains/losses in each of the countries represented as well as dividend income and currency gains/losses. Since … Read More
FLAG vs. FAANG In The Recent Market Sell-Off
For the past five years, the US domestic bull market has been led by growth stocks, and growth has been led by FAANG. Furthermore, during the 3rd quarter, The AA in FAANG (Apple and ) led FAANG. This means that the … Read More
Jesus vs. The Moneychangers: Was He Anti-Finance Or Anti-Religious-Rip-Offs?
The confrontation with the moneychangers has been used to enlist Jesus into an ideological war against finance. There are many examples, but probably the best known of them is FDR’s inaugural address in which he extensively referenced this text.
“Practices … Read More
Jesus Was A Highly Skilled Entrepreneur, Not A Poor Peasant
It’s common for sermons and some academic theological writings to portray Jesus as a poor man who led an attempted peasant revolt. The problem is that neither historical texts nor archaeological records are consistent with this picture.
David Fiensy … Read More
Flight 93, The Crater And The Open Book
People rhetorically ask where God was on 9/11 as though He wasn’t anywhere. Or they ask it accusingly, the way a detective asks a suspect if he has an alibi. “Where were you on the morning of September the 11th?””Can … Read More
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