John W. Diamond, Ph.D.

Tony's
3755 Richmond Ave.
Houston, Texas 77046
 
Thursday October 9, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
 
 
 

PERFECT STORM: HOW BUDGET DEFICITS, TARIFFS AND UNCERTAINTY THREATEN THE U.S. ECONOMY

BILL KING: CHAIR OF THE DAY

PROFESSOR JOHN W. DIAMOND, BAKER INSTITUTE @ RICE UNIVERSITY

                                                                                   
The Rotary Club of Houston is proud to present Professor John Diamond, a leading economics expert and director of the Center for Tax and Budget Policy at Rice Univ.,  who will offer an in-depth analysis on potential impacts of fiscal and trade issues including an examination of risks of growing budget deficits, the disruptive nature of tariffs, and the chilling effect of policy uncertainty and  growing challenges facing the U.S. financial landscape. 
 
Professor Diamond has consistently raised alarms about how growing budget deficits and the the many uncertainties in the U.S. economy threaten the nation's long term fiscal health, framing these crises not as distant problems, but as present threats to our country's economic future.
 
Please invite your friends and potential Rotary members to hear this important program presented by one of our nation's top Economics Experts.
 
Joe Colangelo
Program Committee
 

Join us on Thursday, October 9, 2025 with John W. Diamond, Ph.D. as we look at the current economic state. With Bill King handling the host role, we anticipate the unexpected. 

John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Senior Fellow in Public Finance and the senior director of the Center for Tax and Budget Policy at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC. His research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, state and local public finance, and the construction and simulation of computable general equilibrium models. His current research focuses on the economic effects of corporate tax reform, the economic and distributional effects of fundamental tax reform, taxation and housing values, public sector pensions, and various other tax and expenditure policy issues.

Diamond is co-editor of “Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States” (The MIT Press, 2015) and “Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications” (The MIT Press, 2008). He has testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. House Budget Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and other federal and state committees on issues related to tax policy and the U.S. economy. Diamond served as forum editor for the National Tax Journal (2009-2017) and on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress (2000-2004). He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000.

 
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