Alex Spillis

Alex Spillis is a political consultant and lobbyist at Floridian Partner’s Miami office. With a degree in Economics and Entrepreneurship, Alex seeks to inform others on how our policy choices of today can impact the world of tomorrow.

US Partisanship Is Putting the World Economy at Risk — Here’s How

With the United States officially entering into the second month of the longest government shutdown in history, much has been made about partisanship in American politics. While partisanship has long

By Alex Spillis

January 23, 2019

US Partisanship Is Putting the World Economy at Risk -- Here's How

With the United States officially entering into the second month of the longest government shutdown in history, much has been made about partisanship in American politics. While partisanship has long

By Alex Spillis

January 23, 2019

GM Announcement Lays Bare Shortcomings of Trump's Economic Agenda

“Bringing manufacturing back to America, creating high wage jobs, was one of our campaign promises and themes” Donald Trump proclaimed to a room full of reporters in early 2017, less

By Alex Spillis

November 30, 2018

OPINION: Both Parties Have Elected to Bankrupt This Country if It Means Re-Election

Every two years when Americans go to vote, what issues do you believe they are voting on? Immigration has recently become mobilizing factor for both parties, and climate change has

By Alex Spillis

November 28, 2018

Is China Playing Trump Like A Fiddle?

“Look Around the Poker Table; If You Can’t See the Sucker, You’re It” In the year and a half that Donald Trump has served as president, one of

By Alex Spillis

June 18, 2018

What Motivates Vladimir Putin?

The Marshall Plan was an American investment in the economy and infrastructure of the war-torn continent of Europe after WWII. Vladimir Putin was born four years after the Marshall

By Alex Spillis

April 30, 2018

American Abdication: How the US is Abandoning the World It Created

Abdication (noun): a failure to fulfill a responsibility or duty. How the World Was Won One of the most consequential, yet overlooked achievements of the past 100 years was the

By Alex Spillis

March 9, 2018

Two-Party Brain Drain: Why The Nation's Brightest Minds are Fleeing The Parties

In the study of migration patterns, scholars often times point to different “push” and “pull” factors that have influenced migration trends over time. Historically, the free market structure of the

By Alex Spillis

February 26, 2018

How Trump, Dems Can Solve Income Inequality, If They Work Together

The flowing tide of income inequality has been garnering attention in most every country on earth. Aside from being an “American” issue, income inequality has increased dramatically around the globe

By Alex Spillis

February 8, 2018

By The Time You're Done Reading This, Over $1 Million Will Be Added to the National Debt

$20,599,336,131,868. As of the time of this writing, that is the current United States national debt. In the time it took me to write that sentence,

By Alex Spillis

January 3, 2018

Trump Has Successfully Built His Wall... Around the GOP That Is

Throughout the 2016 election, Donald Trump riled up supporters when he promised to build them a wall. The wall would be towering, it would be strong, and it would keep

By Alex Spillis

December 12, 2017