Keith R. Thompson is an author, economist, researcher, and lifelong student of the forces behind personal achievement, individual success, and societal progress. His career spans academia, public service, investment management, international taxation, transfer pricing, management consulting, and economic analysis. As a professional economist, he combines rigorous analysis with ideas that promote critical thinking, careful judgment, and purposeful action. His enduring interests include economics, history, and the dynamics of performance and achievement.

Keith currently manages an investment fund portfolio. His prior experience includes working with Fortune 100 corporations in international tax/transfer pricing, corporate finance, strategic planning, and business development, as well as service as an adjunct economics professor. He has also consulted for top firms serving organizations across a range of industries, leading engagements for pharmaceutical, industrial, and financial services companies.

He studied at prestigious universities, notably Columbia University in New York.

Here are his most recent posts:

Is the government’s financing of our economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic going to worsen our economic situation

Economic analysis of America’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic

The unintended consequences of Trump’s trade policies

America’s Youth: The Real Losers in 2016

Inequality and Economic Growth: The Case of America 

The third phase of Black America’s fight for racial equality

The two demands of the Black Lives Matter movement

Three-fifths of a person: the economic value of blacks in America

The U.S. Tax code: All things to all politicians

Unfunded Mandates & off-Balance Sheet Liabilities: Notes of caution for America’s Policy makers to consider

When will our politicians deal with the BIG RED ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (our out-of-control National Debt)

Black Economic Empowerment is still the primary concern of African Americans …