Michael Taylor

San Antonio

Freelance Columnist at The San Antonio Express-News

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Articles

What it all means

Dec 4, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

I have a really dumb question. What's a TIRZ? I kind of want to know because there have been about 400 of them created in Texas since 1987. More to the point, in my city of San Antonio, a big downtown developer has ambitions to build a baseball stadium downtown.
Property taxes, Missions baseball stadium and TIRZ: What it all means

Dec 4, 2024 | houstonchronicle.com | Michael Taylor

Developers Graham Weston and Randy Smith are co-founders of Weston Urban and part of the San Antonio Missions ownership group. Smith is shown speaking during a November 2022 news conference at Nelson Wolff Stadium, where the Missions currently play. Weston Urban is seeking to tap the Houston Street TIRZ as part of a deal to build a new stadium for the Missions in downtown San Antonio. Staff file photoI have a really dumb question. What’s a TIRZ?
Beyond Ozempic ... It's Time to Invest In Health-Care Stocks

Oct 24, 2024 | bottomlineinc.com | Michael Taylor

Obesity drugs have mesmerized Wall Street, but the rest of the health-care sector is stuck in the sickbed. Since the beginning of 2023, stock in Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk is up around 75% versus about 40% for the S&P 500 index. Health-care stocks? A little more than 10%. That has created opportunities because weight loss is not the only big deal in medicine.
Eco-friendly air travel: San Antonio researcher lays out possible routes

Oct 2, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

A United Airlines test flight with 100% sustainable aviation fuel takes off from Houston in 2021. Columnist Michael Taylor checks in with a San Antonio-based researcher about whether the goal of environmentally friendly flying is realistic. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographerUnited Airlines tests flying with 100% sustainable aviation fuel in Houston in 2021. While bio jet fuel is available, it remains a niche product — and focused on private jet travel rather than commercial airlines.
Populist bad economic ideas from the presidential campaign trail

Aug 21, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

Bob Livingston shops at H-E-B in Katy earlier this year. As presidential candidates parry over populism, they’re coming up with bad economic ideas like food price controls and import tariffs. Our columnist hopes they’re never put in place. Jon Shapley/Staff photographerTrucks enter the U.S. at Laredo after crossing from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico in this 2019 file photo.
Here's why I'm skeptical about the viability of a Texas Stock Exchange

Jun 12, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

Gov. Greg Abbott at an opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange in July 2015. He was in New York to woo companies to Texas. Now, he’s excited about a planned Texas Stock Exchange in Dallas. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press file photoBlue-jacketed stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Because it'll do business in cyberspace, you won't be seeing any of them working in a planned Texas Stock Exchange in Dallas. Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesGov.
Rhyming Times - Act 4

May 15, 2024 | mtaylor.substack.com | Michael Taylor

So finally, this is the message, this is the point: right now, the problems Britain faces resemble the woes of the late 1940s; but it also shares the unobserved and ignored strategic strengths which allowed Britain to prosper, unheralded and unexpected, during the subsequent decade of dull orthodoxy. Now as then: Britain’s economic and financial future is far brighter than currently imagined or priced. Time to recall the preface to Act 1 of Rhyming Times: Britain was in a mess.
Trump Media, DJT the stock, a perfect example of meme stock crazy

Apr 24, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

The stock price for Truth Social is shown at the Nasdaq building on March 26 in New York. Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, now takes Digital World’s place on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Frank Franklin II/Associated PressRepublican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Green Bay, Wis., on April 2. Scott Olson/TNSThe download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer on March 20 in New York.
Texas thwarts county attempts to advance science of poverty reduction

Apr 16, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo shows the lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the Uplift Harris program. Our columnist says Paxton and other politicians are using misleading language to thwart a scientific approach to poverty reduction. Yi-Chin Lee/Staff photographerTexas state Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office, May 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas.
Taylor: Time again for me to name and shame the Texas delegation's congressional stockpickers

Jan 31, 2024 | expressnews.com | Michael Taylor

A Wall Street street sign is framed by an American flag hanging outside the New York Stock Exchange. Congress has failed — again — to ban its members from stock trading, so columnist Michael Taylor is back to name and shame Texas members for their activity. Mary Altaffer/Associated Press file photoRep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, averages 175 stock trades a month. Stefani Reynolds/Associated PressRep. Michael Burgess, R-Denton, actually increased his stock trading in 2023. Rod Lamkey/Pool, HO / TNSRep.