My name is Christopher Peter. I am the political economist providing the economic perspective on salient current events and issues that impact our public policy, our economic outcomes, and our overall society. Each week, I provide policy and brand reviews on the Christopher Peter Review as well as commentary below in the CRC podcast. Please experience the featured content below and click on any image for more!

REVIEW: EMBRACING DIVERSITY

The right approach to government and private sector hiring is to recruit talent based on merit, focusing on education quality, relevant experience, and proven skill sets rather than demographic factors that contribute little to the important role. Most people do not care the background of the person helping them. They just want to know that the person can do the job. Meritocracy is important in economic decision. But that does not mean that diversity is not important. People of all backgrounds can be equally qualified as any one else. We must stop pretending that obsessing over what people look like is the right approach. When you base important decision solely on demographic factor, you really devalue the people you are supposedly help by indirectly pointing out they are defective without tipping the scale. The goal should be to diversify your pipelines through broadening who you expose decision makers to and let them compete in a fair and level process.

REVIEW: THE PROHIBITIVE COST OF EDUCATION

The debate over higher education is a broad and complex one. Should certain fields really require college degrees? How should access be fairly allocated? The one thing we cannot deny is the importance skills have in our economy. Attaining the set of marketable skills changes over time. Personally, I support the college experience, but also believe alternative paths are more than suitable ways to pursue a viable career. In the above, I offer ideas to try to lower the cost of college attendance beyond redistribution so a person can make a real choice.

REVIEW: THE NEWS PROPAGANDA

A free press is essential in any democracy and free society to keep citizens informed about what the power brokers are doing and shed light on what is done in the dark. That is ideally what the press of a nation would do. But, like anything, there is potential for bias to corrupt the service provided to society. There is a strong argument that journalists cheer certain political parties, candidates, and issues, where their content reflects their personal sentiment. No longer do journalists rely on the audience to frame their own opinion, but many want to guide readers on how they should view an issue based on what they highlight versus what is downplayed. It is important to realize the slant and to do your own research regardless of your preferred news source and compare coverage.

SERIES: PUSHING THE TUSH PUSH FIGHT

The Green Bay Packers are leading the privileged charge of trying to convince the NFL owners that a play is dangerous, despite the facts, evidence, and data reportedly showing otherwise. Now, they and their supporters are arguing they do not like the aesthetics. It does not look like football. It is called innovation and modernization of sports. The United States offering freedom and opportunity by merit not by birth did not look like a nation in 1776, but it is what the world aspires to now. There was a time when athletes overcame challenges.

PERSPECTIVE: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

The topic of this week’s perspective is personal accountability in the sense of a person accepting full accountability for the outcomes of every situation he or she founds themselves in, every opportunity they experience, and every interaction with others, without passing any blame for negative events. The idea is from an audiobook that discuss this idea in a manner of changing one’s mindset to find ways to ensure the outcome you want happens. Listen to the perspectives above.

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