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“People are saying the reason prices are falling are because of all of the foreclosures, but the foreclosures are happening because the prices are falling. They’ve got it backwards. The prices are falling because they’re too freakin’ high.” - Chris Thornberg, Beacon Economics, Aug 27, 2008
A handful of folks have sent this in today; Dr. […]
There are so many individuals and organizations commenting, opining, and prognosticating about the “housing crisis” it can be a real challenge to simply sort out the information – one doesn’t have to look far to find opinions that are radically different on any given day.
It’s logical to ask us why throw another set of data […]
We’ve had several web site readers chide us for not having our News Release page up to date. OK, OK – we fixed it today.
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Returning from a meeting this morning, I was listening to the radio news when a story ran regarding what a disastrous year 2008 has been for bank closures. Here’s a graph from the bright guys at Calculated Risk putting the issue in proper historical perspective. The graph is a bit hard to see at this […]
Mark Thoma, professor of economics at the University or Oregon, has posted an interesting commentary on the housing market “bottom callers” – here’s the link for an interesting poke at some of the prominent pundits calling for a bottom.
We’ll have some comments about “calling the bottom in housing” ourselves up in just a bit.
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Economic development updates for El Paso covering recent months include:
El Paso Electric’s Newman Power Generating Station is expanding. The 288-megawatt addition will be about half the size of the current plant. When completed in May 2011, the addition will power over 200,000 homes. Construction will create over 200 new jobs by 2009.
Foxconn, a Taiwan-based computer […]
Economic development updates for Nashville covering recent months include:
Nissan has opened a new regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada and Mexico in nearby Franklin. The facility, which was designed with numerous environmental features, has enough office space for over 1,500 employees.
Shoals Technology Group recently announced plans to build a manufacturing facility in nearby Gallatin. The […]
Today let’s shift gears a bit and take a look at employment growth rates in the Education and Health Services Supersector. We’re actually featuring this topic in this month’s newsletter Dive into the Data feature. Here’s an excerpt from the newsletter article upcoming which details in part why this supersector is so important to the […]
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