Tag: US economy
What does the economy need now? 4 suggestions for Biden’s coronavirus...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University; Melanie G. Long, The College of Wooster; R. Andrew Butters, Indiana University, and Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Editor’s note:...
Coronavirus and tourism: Places like Alaska without a COVID-19 outbreak could...
Kevin Berry, University of Alaska Anchorage and Mouhcine Guettabi, University of Alaska Anchorage
Alaska doesn’t have a single reported case of COVID-19, yet economically it...
Why the Fed has no choice but to keep cutting interest...
Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
The U.S. Federal Reserve is stuck between an apparently booming economy and a financial crisis that might be right around the...
The surprising decline of entrepreneurship and innovation in the West
Wim Naudé, United Nations University
The idea that we are living in an entrepreneurial age, experiencing rapid disruptive technological innovation on a scale amounting to...
The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion –...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing the longest economic expansion in the...
May jobs report suggests a slowing economy – and possibly an...
Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University
The latest jobs data suggests an interest rate cut may be imminent.
The Labor Department reported on June 7 that U.S. nonfarm...
Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico –...
Aileen Teague, Brown University
Just a week ago, President Donald Trump appeared poised to take the drastic step of closing the U.S.-Mexico border to both...
What’s the economic impact of a government shutdown?
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University
President Donald Trump and Congress are once again on the verge of a partial federal government shutdown. If they fail...
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The world’s ocean is bearing the brunt of a changing climate....
Wes Mountain, The Conversation
Oceans 21 is a Conversation international series examining the history and future of the world’s ocean.
Five profiles open our series on...
