Marc Joffe
Senior Policy Analyst
Marc Joffe is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation.
After a long career in the financial industry, including a senior director role at Moody's Analytics, Joffe's research focuses on municipal finances, alternative asset investments, transportation policy and federal, state and local fiscal policy.
His financial research has been published by the California State Treasurer's Office, UC Berkeley, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, California Policy Center, The Center for Municipal Finance, and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute among others.
Joffe is a regular contributor to The Orange County Register and his op-eds have also appeared in The Fiscal Times, Governing, National Review, The Hill, and The San Jose Mercury News.
Joffe recently presented a panel paper at the APPAM 42nd Annual Fall Research Conference along with University of Texas, Dallas Associate Professor Evgenia Gorina and his Reason colleagues Anil Niraula and Jen Sidorova.
He has an MBA from New York University and an MPA from San Francisco State University.
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Class action lawsuits against CUSIP could improve government transparency
In the case of CUSIP numbers, a strong intellectual property claim hinders our ability to monitor state and local debt.
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The broken federal budget process gets even worse with $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill
With the last major federal budget reform now 50 years behind us, and after 20 consecutive years of federal budget deficits, the congressional budget process obviously needs an overhaul.
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California is using outdated high-speed rail ridership estimates
As state legislators decide whether to issue another $4 billion of bullet train bonds this spring, they should have the best and most recent possible information to make informed decisions.
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BART ridership numbers and projections don’t justify second transbay tunnel
By 2032, BART ridership is projected to reach only 70% of pre-pandemic projections.
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Testimony: State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program was not a good use of taxpayer money
The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program was excessive and poorly targeted.
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Forcing public pension plans to make political investing decisions could hurt taxpayers and retirees
State lawmakers shouldn’t force their environmental or social goals onto pension fund managers.
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Working Paper: How shifting to a defined contribution retirement plan impacted teacher retention in Alaska
Using individual-level data for all Alaska teachers in the Teacher Retirement System before and after the retirement benefit change, we assess the effects of pension reform on teacher mobility out of employment with the Alaska K-12 system.
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Public pension plans need to consider the risks and drawbacks of environmental, social and governance investing
ESG investing may be at odds with public pension systems' responsibility to safeguard public employees' retirement benefits at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers.
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California financial audit arrives a year late and raises flags about unemployment benefits paid
California's 2020 annual comprehensive financial report took 583 days to produce.
