John Tamny

John Tamny is Vice President at FreedomWorks, and Director of its Center for Economic Freedom. He’s also editor of RealClearMarkets, and Senior Economic Adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group.  He frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph.  Tamny is the author of four books: Popular Economics (Regnery, 2015), a primer on economics,  Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter Books, 2016) about the central bank’s onrushing economic irrelevance, and The End of Work (Regnery, 2018), which discusses the exciting evolution of jobs that don’t feel at all like work.  His latest book, released in November of 2019, is titled They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America’s Frustrated Independent Thinkers. 

Tamny received a BA at the University of Texas at Austin, and his MBA at Vanderbilt.