User:Joecobb

Joe Michael Cobb, born USMA West Point, NY, February 7, 1944. Father was Staff Sgt. Richard Moore Cobb of Dodd City, TX, and mother was Bonnie Virginia Green of Greenville and Bonham, TX - children of Bob Mack Cobb and George Green.

Schooled in Wichita, KS, at Jefferson elementary, Curtis intermediate, and Southeast high schools. Attended the University of Chicago (college) and Graduate School of Business [Booth] to study philosophy, politics, and economics. Mentors were Ronald Hamowy and Ralph Raico; best friend was James Martin Shields Powell; became the final editor of the New Individualist Review (1961-68), now in the Liberty Fund catalog. Degrees A.B. (economics) [age 22] and M.B.A. 1977 [age 33].

Political and career history: As a College Republican, worked as 5th Ward Precinct-43 captain and recruited students for poll watching on election days in all-Democrat voting precincts. Obtained his first paid job as Field Auditor for the Cook County government under County Board President Richard Ogilvie (1968) and became a State employee when Ogilvie was elected governor. Resigned from position as Chief Budget & Fiscal Officer, Industrial Commission of Illinois in 1977.

Standard Oil of Indiana, Chicago, 1977-79; Council for a Competitive Economy, Washington, DC, 1979-81; US Choice in Currency Commission (founder/director), 1981-82; US Interstate Commerce Commission, 1982 June; White House Office of Policy Information, 1982 July-October; US State Department, Office of the Ambassador to OAS, 1982-83; US House of Representatives, Committee on Banking, Subcommittee on Coinage, 1983-85; Congressional Joint Economic Committee, senior economist, 1985-90; Congressional Joint Economic Committee, minority staff director, 1990-91; US Senate Republican Policy Committee, chief economist, 1991-93; The Heritage Foundation, John M. Olin Senior Fellow in Economics, 1993-96; Trade Policy Institute (founder/president), 1997-98; H & R Block, seasonal tax preparer, 1998-; Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA, 1999-2004; Coast Community College, Costa Mesa, CA 2000-2006; Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA, 2001-02; Santa Ana Community College, Santa Ana, CA 2002-04; Concordia University Irvine, Irvine, CA 2004-05; Retired to Glendale, Arizona, 2006+

Family: Yolanda Cohen, 1968-1997; M.Cheak Yee, 1969+; Hannah Frisch, 1969-75; Debbie Stover, 1977-84; Elisabeth Ann Richards, 1984-1993; Ryan Lorraine Cobb Yanashima, 1983+ George Viera Yanashima, 2006+; Emily Susan Goldberg, 2006+; Susan Laurel Yanashima, 2015+;