Daily Economy News
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Helping Students Understand Government Budgets
Our Teach-the-Teachers program, which helps high school teachers create lessons in economics, includes a section on government budgets. In an interactive manner, we look at federal, state, and local budgeting processes, revenues and expenditures. One of the teachers from 2015 program, Kerry Hartley from Canton High School in Connecticut, decided to adapt this lesson to…
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Private Sector Job Openings Expand
This morning provided more evidence that the economic expansion is still on track, and remains on a trend of slow improvement, rather than some of the outsized expectations that came with Friday’s blockbuster jobs numbers.
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Tempering the Optimism
This morning we got our first bit of new economic data since Friday’s blockbuster jobs report, and it was more muted than one might have expected.
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The Real Benefit of Low Gas Prices
Since September of 2014, the price of gasoline has fallen by more than a dollar per gallon as a result of the lower crude oil prices. For the average American consumer, this means their expenditures on gasoline have fallen by $22 per month. The total amount “saved” by Americans as a result of this decrease…
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Slate Podcast Features AIER’s Rosalind Greenstein
We are honored that Slate’s new Panoply podcast series, 40/40 Vision, includes an interview with AIER’s director of research and education, Rosalind Greenstein.
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Social Security File-And-Suspend Ends: What Now?
This blog targets those of you that are already at least 62 years old (born in 1953 or earlier) but have not yet filed for Social Security benefits. As many of you know, the recently signed budget bill closes the “loophole” that enabled the file-and-suspend and restricted claiming strategies. Please feel free to read more…
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Big Ideas in Macroeconomics
During the summer, I came across a book that described macroeconomic foundations, models, and frameworks in a simple way. I was so intrigued by the clarity of the explanations that I wrote a book review, which just got published in The American Economist. The book by Kartik Athreya is called “Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A…
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In the Age of Uber, Labor Surveys Can’t Keep Up
The Pew Research Center recently released a report on self-employment in the United States, which appears to contradict the storyline about the rise of the “gig economy.” But there’s a lot the underlying survey doesn’t tell us.
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Community and State Colleges Spur Business Innovation
The C. Lowell Harriss Award demonstrates that important business innovation comes from many places beyond Silicon Valley and the biopharma centers around Boston, San Francisco and San Diego. America’s community and state colleges are increasingly taking on the challenge of helping their students turn entrepreneurial aspirations into real businesses, and it’s paying off.
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Helping Students Understand Government Budgets
Our Teach-the-Teachers program, which helps high school teachers create lessons in economics, includes a section on government budgets. In an interactive manner, we look at federal, state, and local budgeting processes, revenues and expenditures. One of the teachers from 2015 program, Kerry Hartley from Canton High School in Connecticut, decided to adapt this lesson to…
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•
Private Sector Job Openings Expand
This morning provided more evidence that the economic expansion is still on track, and remains on a trend of slow improvement, rather than some of the outsized expectations that came with Friday’s blockbuster jobs numbers.
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•
Tempering the Optimism
This morning we got our first bit of new economic data since Friday’s blockbuster jobs report, and it was more muted than one might have expected.
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•
The Real Benefit of Low Gas Prices
Since September of 2014, the price of gasoline has fallen by more than a dollar per gallon as a result of the lower crude oil prices. For the average American consumer, this means their expenditures on gasoline have fallen by $22 per month. The total amount “saved” by Americans as a result of this decrease…
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Slate Podcast Features AIER’s Rosalind Greenstein
We are honored that Slate’s new Panoply podcast series, 40/40 Vision, includes an interview with AIER’s director of research and education, Rosalind Greenstein.
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Social Security File-And-Suspend Ends: What Now?
This blog targets those of you that are already at least 62 years old (born in 1953 or earlier) but have not yet filed for Social Security benefits. As many of you know, the recently signed budget bill closes the “loophole” that enabled the file-and-suspend and restricted claiming strategies. Please feel free to read more…
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•
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics
During the summer, I came across a book that described macroeconomic foundations, models, and frameworks in a simple way. I was so intrigued by the clarity of the explanations that I wrote a book review, which just got published in The American Economist. The book by Kartik Athreya is called “Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A…
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In the Age of Uber, Labor Surveys Can’t Keep Up
The Pew Research Center recently released a report on self-employment in the United States, which appears to contradict the storyline about the rise of the “gig economy.” But there’s a lot the underlying survey doesn’t tell us.
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•
Community and State Colleges Spur Business Innovation
The C. Lowell Harriss Award demonstrates that important business innovation comes from many places beyond Silicon Valley and the biopharma centers around Boston, San Francisco and San Diego. America’s community and state colleges are increasingly taking on the challenge of helping their students turn entrepreneurial aspirations into real businesses, and it’s paying off.