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 now focuses on sovereign and sub-sovereign credit risk and fiscal sustainability.
His financial research has been published by the California State Treasurer's Office, UC Berkeley, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University 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 and The San Jose Mercury News.
He has an MBA from New York University and an MPA from San Francisco State University.
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Survey of State and Local Government Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities
State and local governments have $1.2 trillion of net liabilities for other post-employment benefits.
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California’s Marin County Pension System Moves Toward More Prudent Investment Return Assumptions
The pension system recently joined a handful of other local pension plans adopting more realistic investment return assumptions.
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California Should Prioritize Paying Down Public Pension Debt
California's long-term budget concerns should motivate policymakers to pay down the state's public pension debt as quickly as possible.
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Does the Bay Area Need a New Subway Tunnel?
With uncertainty around travel patterns and a likely permanent increase in remote work, BART’s existing transbay tunnel is unlikely to return to its peak utilization in the years ahead.
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Putting Milton Friedman’s Shareholder Primacy Ideas in Historical Context
If corporate executives eschew profits in pursuit of social responsibility, they are, in Friedman’s terms, “spending someone else's money for a general social interest.”
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New Budget Reconciliation Resolution Portends Dangerous Debt Trends
The resolution predicts the national debt will reach $41 trillion in 2030.
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Initial 2020 Revenue Figures In Many States Are Higher Than Expected
The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t hurt state tax revenues as badly as had been predicted by many states and economists.
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Examining Private Equity in Public Pension Investments
Public pension systems should thoroughly evaluate the downsides of private equity investing before increasing their allocations to the asset class.
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How the Federal Reserve’s Actions and Low Interest Rates Impact Public and Private Retirement Savings
Policymakers should give more consideration to the adverse impacts that repressive interest rate policies have on both public and personal retirement savings.