Job creation is on the upswing. However, according to the Brookings Institute they are getting further away from where unemployed Americans are living. In february…
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A new Brookings Institute study has come out stating that incoming inequality continues to be a major issue especially in the 50 largest US cities.…
Taking a look at the economy of Iraq two things are at the forefront: oil and war. Currently their issues lie in the dropping cost…
I thought I would share a really interesting graphic I came across in the New York Times “A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts…
When it comes to our economy there are clearly different ways that economists look at it. Think tanks put out reports regularly that are often…
While the debt limit was suspended last year by Congress, allowing them to borrow as much as they wanted to finance projects, it has now…
Yesterday Leland Miller, President of China Beige Book International, spoke at Washington and Lee in a lecture called, “Demystifying China’s Economy in 2015”. Miller began…
As a follow-up to a previous blog post on Ukraine I will now discuss it’s counterpart in the news, Russia. As mentioned earlier, Ukraine’s economy…
When looking at urban economics in the context of the national economy it is sometimes hard to gauge economic growth versus simply population growth. Generally,…
Ukraine has been in the news consistently for over a year now due to major conflict between Russia. The economic downturn that has happened because…