Published on: January 15, 2021

Powerful Interviews

Disclaimer: Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Therefore, no current or prospective client should assume that the future performance of any specific investment, investment strategy (including the investments and/or investment strategies recommended and/or purchased by adviser), or product made reference to directly or indirectly on this Website, or indirectly via link to any unaffiliated third-party Website, will be profitable or equal to corresponding indicated performance levels.

Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk. No client or prospective client should assume that any information presented and/or made available on this Website serves as the receipt of, or a substitute for, personalized individual advice from the adviser or any other investment professional. Links provided from this website are strictly for informational purposes and are not an endorsement or recommendation of the site, company, content, or its sponsoring organization by McGowanGroup Asset Management, Inc.

Spencer Interviews the Executive in Residence at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at SMU and Former Chief Economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Dr. W. Michael Cox!

Dr. W. Michael CoxDr. W. Michael Cox serves as Executive in Residence at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at SMU and is formerly the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he served for 25 years advising the President on monetary and other economic policies.  He holds the unique distinction of being the Federal Reserve System’s only Chief Economist in history.
Cox is widely published in the nation’s leading business press, Fed publications and academic journals.  He is the author of numerous op ed articles for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Financial Times, and Investor’s Business Daily; and his work has appeared in virtually every major newspaper and magazine worldwide.
Dr. Cox co-authored the Fed’s acclaimed series of annual report essays on capitalism, globalization, and American living standards.  He has contributed to a number of public policy issues, and his research is frequently designated as required reading for Congress.
Dr. Cox has comprehensively documented American progress and its delivery mechanism-free markets.  Looking at multiple aspects of living standards, he proves that capitalism is far and away the economic system that best provides for the progress of nations.  He battles economic doomsayers and capitalism’s enemies with his book, Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We’re Better Off Than We Think.
The media rely on Dr. Cox’s ability to make plain sense out of difficult economic issues.  He is a frequent guest on national radio, television and Internet programs, including ABC’s John Stossel program, CNN, Fox News, ReasonTV, Voice of America, National Public Radio and BizRadio.
He is Past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a CATO Institute Adjunct Scholar, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Senior Fellow at the Dallas Fed’s Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, and a Distinguished Scholar of his undergraduate alma mater Hendrix College.  His thirty four years of university teaching include Virginia Tech, the University of Rochester and Southern Methodist University. 
Cox is President and CEO of W. Michael Cox and Associates, LLP, a Dallas-based private consulting group.  He lives in Dallas with his wife Maria and daughter McKenna.