John D. Mueller

John D. Mueller is the director of the Economics and Ethics Program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also president of LBMC LLC, a firm specializing in economic and financial-market forecasting and economic policy analysis. From 1979 through 1988 he served as economist and speechwriter to then-Congressman Jack Kemp, helping draft key features of President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Mueller’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Chesterton Review, and the Harvard Business Review. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.