Archive for October, 2009
Texas’ Role in GDP Jump
The lead above-the-fold story in today’s Wall Street Journal heralds the possible end to our recession with the release of Q3 ‘09 GDP figures. The 3.5% annual rate of expansion in the third quarter halts four straight quarters of decline during a recession that officially began in December 2007. But what factors drove the Q3 expansion? From [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009
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Border Health Care
What effect might national healthcare reform have on Texas-Mexico border communities? What reform initiatives to improve healthcare outcomes along the border should be included in the healthcare reform debate? A new article in Texas Business Review by Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde looks at healthcare along the border from a bi-national perspective. Perhaps surprisingly, a [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009
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Bureau of Business Research hosts AUBER Regional Economics Conference
One hundred economists spent 3 days discussing, debating, and diciphering local and national economic trends during the 63rd annual conference of the Association for University Business and Economic Research. Keynote speaker David Altig, director of research at the Atlanta Fed, cautioned the group during his address that the economy was far from recovered and took issue [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009
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