A Friend Gets Published!

Stephen Slivinski is the husband of one of my classmates, Krystal, and has an upcoming book that is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The book is called "Buck Wild: How Republicans Blew the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government".

Stephen is the Director of Budget Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. Here's a brief profile about him from Cato's website:

Stephen Slivinski is an expert in tax and budget issues at the state and federal levels. Most recently, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Slivinski has served as director of tax and budget studies for the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a research associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida. Slivinski has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He is coauthor (with Stephen Moore) of Cato's Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review Online, among others. Slivinski holds a master's degree in economics from George Mason University.

Stephen is a really great guy and I'm very impressed with him on both a personal and an intellectual level. Every conversation I've had with him has been insightful and engaging. I'm sure this is bound to be a great book!

Please support Stephen and pre-order your copy today!

P.S. -- Here's a report by Stephen on How Republicans became defenders of Big Government. (Hattip to Marginal Revolution.)