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The College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation, Updated 10/26/2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-04)
The presentation includes information on: The College Station-Bryan Business-Cycle Index, Business-Cycle, nonfarm employment, taxable sales, and unemployment rates through August 2022; Real total wages through the first ...
Alamos Alliance XXIX Executive Summary
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-07)
In this summary of the 29th edition of Alamos Alliance, participants and panelists addressed the issue of isolationist policies in response to the economic conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, high inflation, and ...
Workforce Demand and the Skills Gap in Texas
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-06)
Community colleges are an important provider of educational services and play a critical role in meeting the workforce demands of Texas employers. This study focuses on the role of community colleges as occupational skills ...
Property Titles of Non-Renewable Natural Resources in Mexico: An Alternative to "Constitutional Nationalism"
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-26)
Here, the authors propose the benefits of instituting a Sovereign Mexican Fund (SMF), which emulates the Alaska Trust Fund, in order to reconcile the capital investment needs of the energy sector in Mexico with the strong ...
Free Banking Is Back?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-11-15)
While none of the current cryptocurrencies, themselves, currently circulate in general commerce, many crypto exchanges have arisen that exchange the various cryptocurrencies for one another and for titles to U.S. dollars. ...
The Pandemic Federal Reserve: The First Two Years
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-06-07)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, developed world governments engaged in unprecedented spending. Federal Reserve securities holdings were an astounding 36.5% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product after two pandemic years. ...
Can Electricity Demand Help Us Monitor the Economy?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-07-12)
The recent pandemic has emphasized the importance of high-frequency economic variables. Electricity consumption, particularly important as a production input, is one such variable. However, electricity consumption typically ...
The Federal Reserve & Interest Rates: It's the Interest on Reserves, Not the Fed Funds Rate That Matters
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-16)
Much of the press’s reporting of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation is measured by how much the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next FOMC meeting. But the press’s measure of interest ...
College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation, Updated 4/7/2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-11)
The presentation includes information on: The January 2022 Business-Cycle Index and Business-Cycle for College Station-Bryan; College Station-Bryan unemployment rates dropped to 3.7% in February 2022 and was tied for the ...