Bloomberg Opinion hires Tax Foundation’s Smith

Karl Smith

Karl Smith, the vice president for federal tax and economic policy at the Tax Foundation, has been hired by Bloomberg Opinion in a full-time role.

He has been at the Tax Foundation since December 2019, leading the federal team in working with federal officials to improve the national tax code.

Smith had previously been an opinion columnist at Bloomberg, and continued to write on a broad range of current economic issues while at the Tax Foundation. Smith’s opinion and analysis pieces have been featured in The Financial Times, Forbes.com, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post.

Prior to Bloomberg, Smith was a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008, he founded an internationally recognized economic policy blog titled Modeled Behavior, with a related, similarly recognized social media presence.

Smith holds a PhD in economics from North Carolina State University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.