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College Towns: Handle Data With Care
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-11-18)
Although the term ‘college town’ may invoke idyllic images from our past, government statistics paint a different picture. College towns often appear as poverty – ridden, with unaffordable housing and low incomes. ...
Japanese Government Debt: It's Not As Bad As You Might Think
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-12-02)
Japan, the third-largest economy in the world by GDP, is also the most heavily indebted of the highly developed countries. Its gross debt of 1,175.84 trillion yen is an eye-popping 213.7% of GDP. In this issue of Data ...
Texas: Leading the Way on Wind Power
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-12-03)
Wind power is a growing source for electricity generation in the United States, and wind power now providing over 6% of our electricity. In Texas wind is responsible for 15% of electricity production, and Texas produces ...
"Forecasting" Deficit Spending in the United States: A Look at Projections from the Congressional Budget Office
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-10-01)
The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, is the non-partisan government agency that provides projections of costs and revenues to Congress and the public. CBO projections are conditional forecasts of underlying economic ...
Taxation in the Fifty States, With Special Attention on the Lone Star State
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-30)
State taxes have been in the news nationally due to changes in the deductibility of state income taxes on federal income tax returns, as well as locally, as citizens in Texas and other states protest rising property taxes. ...
Hydraulic Fracking: A Story of American Innovation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-04-01)
A regular misconception is that Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of energy from oil and natural gas. Despite massive oil production, Saudi Arabia produces less than 1% of total energy from oil and gas. The U.S. currently ...
Revisionist Economic History? Potential GDP in the United States
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-01)
U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has finally caught up with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates of potential GDP as of late 2017, even though the National Bureau of Economic Research dates the end of the Great ...