Donald Byrne

DONALD BYRNE was a retired Professor of Economics at the University of Detroit Mercy and held a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at other institutions, including: University of California-Berkeley, Notre Dame, Wayne State University, and Walsh College. In 2003, he helped launch an economics and finance oriented online newsletter: EconNewsLetter.com. He also served on several financial-institution boards and as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. A devout Catholic and family man, Dr. Byrne passed into eternity on May 7, 2018. May God rest his soul.

Has Lady Liberty Lost Her Competitive Edge?

Has Lady Liberty Lost Her Competitive Edge?

There is a scratch in the record, and it keeps playing… “HERE WE GO AGAIN…before it was Japan and Germany eating our lunch, now it is China.” In response to a recent article written by the authors of EconNewsLetter, a professor teaching supply...

Debt, Deficits, and Prophecies

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public’s money. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835.


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