Biography
John Tamny is the editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM), a spin-off of the policy website
RealClearPolitics. RCM seeks to compile top-quality information and opinions about the stock markets
and global economy. Tamny 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 Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can
Teach You About Economics. He’s also a weekly guest on Forbes on FOX.
Tamny is the author of Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James
Can Teach You About Economics (April, 2015) and Who Needs the Fed? What Taylor Swift, Uber and
Robots Tells Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank (May, 2016).
Tamny’s third book, The End of Work, will be released in May of 2018. In it, he chronicles the amazing
evolution of abundant work that rewards more and more unique skills and singular forms of intelligence.
The “end of work” is near precisely because the jobs of today and tomorrow increasingly don’t feel like
work.
Previously, Tamny worked in private wealth management for Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. He
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of
Business Administration from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. He lives in
Washington, D.C.