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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.
Harvey Can Be a Judgment Without Being a Punishment
Some thoughts about Harvey and the economy. Natural disasters don’t have to be economic disasters. When societies are unhealthy and brittle they often are shattered by hurricanes, tsunami, earthquakes. These disasters often trigger regime change or attempts at regime change. … Read More
Paganism vs. Labor
The ‘greatest’ of the ancient pagan thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle and Cicero had contempt for manual labor. They thought it distorted the body and the mind. Aristotle said that there were three kinds of knowledge: Theory, Action (by … Read More
Alt-Right and Control-Left: Time for Control-Alt-Delete
Lee didn’t want confederate monuments built, and didn’t want the flag flown. He had the sense to know that the confederate cause was lost, and the only way forward was…forward. Enough with the confederate nostalgia. They weren’t good old … Read More
1776 2.0: The Front Lines of the New Revolt
Alexis de Tocqueville once said that the limits placed on the central power in the new world are different from the limits placed on national power in the old world. In the New World, the national government has jurisdiction … Read More
Another 1776: Would An Armed Revolt Work Today?
Yesterday I attempted to ignite a debate (not a revolt) about the State of America now compared to 241 years ago, when we abolished the authority of the British government over our affairs.
If we take a WWJD approach (What Would … Read More
The July 4th Question: 241 Years After the First Revolution, Is it Time For a Second?
Let’s start with a shocking, but true premise: If you are a patriotic American, you believe that there are circumstances under which it is right to take up arms against your own government. That statement feels wrong to me. … Read More
Film Premieres Just In Time For 50th Anniversary Of Six Day War
Today is a big day for Jerusalem. On the heels of his visit to Saudi Arabia, delivering perhaps the most honest and challenging speech an American president has ever given in the Middle East, President Trump goes to Jerusalem. And … Read More
Women In The Board Room: It’s Not Good For Man To Be Alone
International Women’s Day was this week. For Women’s Day, State Street installed the statue of a young woman confronting the iconic charging bull, stressing the importance of gender diversity and equality in the workplace.
The message here is that … Read More
Supply-Side Economist Challenges Austrians on Inflation
John Tamny, Political Economy Editor of Forbes, has written a controversial new book entitled ‘Who Needs the Fed?’. This is not your standard libertarian howl of outrage against American’s central bank: it’s more of a yawn of indifference to it. … Read More
Affluent Christian Investor Team to Offer Live TV Election Night Coverage
Affluent Christian Investor contributing editor, Jerry Bowyer, along with co-founder Christopher Bowyer, will be analyzing breaking election night news on Cornerstone Television Network. If you are … Read More
Media Loves Bush’s Gracious 1993 Letter to Clinton Now, Why Not in 2000 Recount?
It’s a very nice note, and I’m glad it’s circulating now. I hope, but doubt, that Trump will follow Bush I’s example.
If Very Late Term Abortions Don’t Happen, Hillary, Then Why Fight to Keep Them Legal?
Last night Trump described late term abortions. Hillary shot back saying that’s not how this procedure is actually done. Okay, if the procedure is not done that way, that late, etc. … Read More
NPR, Evolution Destroys Reason
The co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection, Alfred Russell Wallace, spotted this fact and its implication at the very beginning: If evolution selects for survival and not ability to discern truth, then the theory that humans are the result … Read More
Bernie Sanders’ Ignorant Comments About Trump’s Taxes
Bernie Sanders complained to the Washington Post about Trump not paying enough to pay for infrastructure.
“You’ve got the middle-class people working longer hours for low wages — they pay their taxes, they support their schools, they support their infrastructure, … Read More
Trump, Taxes, and NYT’s Hypocrisy
The New York Times ran an article this past weekend implying that Donald Trump has paid no taxes for the past two decades, because of a large loss in 1995. The problem is that in 2014, the Times also paid no … Read More
Here’s the Worst Thing About Last Night’s Debate
Unless you’re a hardcore Trumpie, you probably thought that Clinton won the debate. Sure, Trump did a little better in the earlier trade discussion, but Clinton did much better later on and has had far more favorable coverage today. … Read More
Senator Warren’s CEO Rant Omission, Biggest Beneficiary Was Abortion Mega-Donor
Click here to watch my recent interview with Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business News. One thing I didn’t get a chance to say: When Elizabeth rightly lambasted the CEO of Wells Fargo for benefiting as a major shareholder from the … Read More
Cruz Speech Was a Leadership Failure – For Everyone
Thoughts on the Cruz thing. I seem to be the only man in America who is not on either of the poles (Cruz was Mel Gibson in Braveheart vs. Cruz was Robert the Bruce in Braveheart:
1. Jesus was right … Read More
Police vs. Black People: Satan Loves That Narrative
Seems like we have a country divided between people who reflexively side with cops and people who reflexively side with black suspects who are shot. It’s pure group-think. That’s not good. Solomon says, “He who answers before he hears a … Read More
On Dallas and Domestic Terrorism
Police have been murdered by snipers while guarding a peaceful, predominantly African-American protest.
Let’s be honest about what this is: Terrorism. It’s not Al-Qaeda and it’s not ISIS. It’s homegrown. And it’s our failure. But should we be surprised? … Read More
From the Editor – Best Year Ever to Help People Fall Out of Love With the State
It is not my political mission to elect Republicans. Nor is it to defeat Democrats. My political mission is to help people fall out of love with the State. My political mission comes from David, “Put no confidence in princes.” … Read More
1776 2.0: The Front Lines of the New Revolt
Alexis de Tocqueville once said that the limits placed on the central power in the new world are different from the limits placed on national power in the old world. In the New World, the national government has jurisdiction … Read More
Another 1776: Would An Armed Revolt Work Today?
Yesterday I attempted to ignite a debate (not a revolt) about the State of America now compared to 240 years ago, when we abolished the authority of the British government over our affairs.
If we take a WWJD approach (What Would … Read More
The July 4th Question: 240 Years After the First Revolution, Is it Time For a Second?
Let’s start with a shocking, but true premise: If you are a patriotic American, you believe that there are circumstances under which it is right to take up arms against your own government. That statement feels wrong to me. … Read More
