Anthony Randazzo is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
His research portfolio is regularly evolving, and he maintains a wide interest in economic policy at both a domestic and international level.
Randazzo is also managing director of the Pension Integrity Project, which provides technical assistance to public sector retirement system stakeholders who are seeking to prevent pension plan insolvency. His research focus on the national public sector pension crisis has a dual focus of identifying the systemic factors that cause public officials to underfund pension obligations as well as studying the processes by which meaningful pension reform can be accomplished. Within the Project he leads the analytics team that develops independent, third party actuarial analysis to stakeholders considering changes to public sector retirement systems.
In addition, Randazzo writes about the moral foundations of economic theory, and is currently developing research on the ways that the moral intuitions of economists influence their substantive findings on topics like income inequality, immigration, or labor policy.
Randazzo's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Barron's, Bloomberg View, The Washington Times, The Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, Orange-County Register, RealClearMarkets, Reason magazine and various other online and print publications.
During his tenure at Reason he has published substantive research on housing finance, financial services regulation, and various other aspects of economic policy at the federal level. And he has written regularly on labor economics, tax policy, privatization, and Turkish-U.S. political and economic issues.
Randazzo has also testified before numerous state and local legislative bodies on pension policy matters, as well as before the House Financial Services Committee on topics related to housing policy and government-sponsored enterprises.
He holds a multidisciplinary M.A. in behavioral political economy from New York University.
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The Challenge of Private Debt For the Post-Election Economy
Obama will face slow private debt deleveraging that will hamper economic growth for at least the next few years
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Thinking about Foreclosures and the Fauxcovery
What housing data you should look for in the coming months
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Obama and Romney Ignored Housing and Debt
President Obama and Gov. Romney keep saying they want America to get back to work, and yet they continue to ignore the biggest obstacles to economic recovery: housing market and private debt
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Violent Protests Mar Draghi and the ECB’s False Narrative
Protests in Spain and Greece have shattered the narrative set by the ECB
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How Quantitative Easing Helps the Rich and Soaks the Rest of Us
And why the Occupy movement should be up in arms
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Presidential Debates Should Include Budget Plan Truth
The two candidates for president are not that far apart on federal spending
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Don’t Believe the Near-Term Housing Data…
...we've not reached a bottom of the market yet
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Does the Paul Ryan Choice Ensure a Real Housing Debate?
Weighing the records of Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan
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Private Debt Is Crippling the Economy
There won't be a recovery until credit card and household debt levels come down
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High Debt Levels Are Preventing Recovery
Household aggregate debt remains very high on rising consumer credit levels, and this is a significant problem for economic growth
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Americans Resort to Plastic Safety Nets
Americans are starting to borrow once again, they're doing so at an unexpectedly high level, but it's for all the wrong reasons
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The Fed’s Harmful Monetary Policy
From a long-term perspective, the Federal Reserve is doing more harm than good right now to economic stability
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Cities Taking Mortgages with Eminent Domain is a Bad Idea
Both Robert Shiller and city officials in San Bernardino County should reconsider their support for condemning underwater mortgages
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Eminent Domain to “Condemn” Underwater Mortgages: Another Bad Idea
Exploring the debate over principal reduction
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To Help Fix Housing, Disclose Mortgage Addresses
Mortgage investors should have the same privilege as banks