Dr. Nash is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, an adjunct scholar with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Washington, D.C., and is the former State Director of Economic Education for the clergy for the State of Michigan. Dr. Nash has co-authored four books including When We Are Free (with foreword by Dr. Milton Friedman) and In Defense of Capitalism (co-authored with Dr. Richard M. Ebeling, and Dr. Keith A. Pretty). Nash and his colleagues have conducted research and consulting for a number of Fortune 500 companies and their organizations including GM/UAW/PEL, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA), the Auto Care Association, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Chrysler, and Dow Corning Corporation. Nash is responsible for researching and publishing the Northwood University Monthly Economic Outlook, Auto Care Association’s monthly industry indicator’s report and its monthly Business Confidence Index which is done in conjunction with Northwood University. Nash has addressed national and international forums related to the economy and automobile industry in China, Europe and North America. He serves on the boards of the Free Enterprise Institute (FEI) in Houston, Texas, Junior Achievement of Central Michigan, the Great Lakes Bay Economic Club and Gerace Construction Incorporated.
Nash is a frequent guest on Michigan-based ABC, NBC and CBS television stations, Michigan Talk Radio, and the Paul W. Smith and Frank Beckman Shows on WJR Radio. His writing and interviews have appeared in publications as diverse as The Detroit News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Automotive News, Aftermarket Business, Aftermarket News, The New Jersey Star Ledger, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal/MarketWatch, Harvard University’s Better, Faster, Cheaper and The International Review of Economics. Nash resides in Midland, MI with his wife, Pam, and is the father of four adult children and grandfather to Ella, John George, Brady, Caroline, Evelyn and Bennett …his pride and joy!
The distribution of the income tax burden in America is a surprising study, to say the least. Two recent studies produced by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation analyzes who pays the federal income tax burden and what the burden and cost of preparing income taxes really is. The short version? Rich people do pay their...
Willie D. Davis was born July 24, 1934, in Lisbon, Louisiana, and died April 15, 2020, in Santa Monica, California, just shy of age 86. Davis had the rare distinction of being revered as both an iconic entrepreneur and athlete. At age 8, Willie’s father left the family, and his mother had to raise three...
Editor’s Note: This column is co-authored by Dr. Timothy G. Nash, Kate Hessling, Dr. Tom Rastin, and George Lang. It originally appeared in Townhall. As we begin 2024, there are many reasons to celebrate being Americans. We live in the freest, safest, most resource rich and prosperous nation in the world. By many economic measurements,...
Editor’s Note: This column is co-authored by Timothy Nash and Ohio State Sen. George Lang. It originally was published by Townhall. Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal coined the term Bidenomics to expose the administration’s overstatement of success and understatement of problems in the U.S. economy. President Biden now uses Bidenomics as a re-election...
Editor’s note: This piece was co-authored by Andrew Reder, a student from Northwood University. It originally was published on TownHall. As we have been discussing for months, the United States ended its “job recovery” from the COVID-19 recession in December 2022, when it finally surpassed the December 2019 level (158.8 million Americans employed) reaching 159.24...
The United States Declaration of Independence was not yet six months old when George Washington and his Continental Army found themselves crossing the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in late December to do battle against British and Hessian German soldiers at what became known as the Battle of Trenton. In fact, Washington and...
The United States Declaration of Independence was not yet six months old when George Washington and his Continental Army found themselves crossing the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in late December to do battle against British and Hessian German soldiers at what became known as the Battle of Trenton. In fact, Washington and...
Introduction Recent polls from Fox News, The New York Times, and others indicate the November mid-term elections will turn on two major issues: inflation and the economy, and crime rates. These polls seem to show Republicans with a better than even chance of taking both the House and Senate as the majority of Americans blame...
Dr. Timothy G. Nash, vice president, emeritus; director of The McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship; and the McNair Endowed Chair in Free Market Economics at Northwood University, has an interesting piece about inflation published on Townhall. You can read it here.
Introduction On Sept. 8, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, commonly known as Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, head of the British Commonwealth and defender of the faith, passed away at the age of 96. Queen Elizabeth II, as of June 2022 served as...
The following is the latest economic outlook from the McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Northwood University.It was co-authored by McNair student scholar, Brad Getchel. Introduction China has real estate problems at home with many experts arguing the problem could be in the trillions of dollars. Reuters recently reported China...
The major causes of our current inflation-driven crisis are the roughly $6 trillion in largely excessive spending the Trump and Biden Administrations spent in the name of COVID relief and economic recovery; President Biden’s reregulation of the U.S. economy; and the dramatic expansion of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s balance sheet from $4.14 trillion (January...
We are poised to honor more than 75 million dads on Sunday as part of this year’s Father’s Day. But U.S. consumers will not be spending as much as we did when honoring our moms last month for Mother’s Day. Honoring Dad Father’s Day in the United States became a national holiday in 1972, though...
The Northwood University COVID-19 Optimism Index is prepared monthly by the McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Northwood University. The Index follows seven variables on a daily basis. The variables are (a) Total U.S. COVID cases, (b) Total U.S. COVID-related deaths, (c) Current U.S. COVID-19 Mortality Rate, (d) Performance of...