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Economic Analysis
HICKS: Roots of recession found in homes, stocks
June 26, 2010
Mike HicksWhen the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research meets later this year or next, I believe
they’ll say the recession hit bottom in June or July of 2009. Recessions end when the economy bottoms out.
MoreHICKS: Four recommendations for your reading list
June 19, 2010
Mike HicksThough I am no slave to fashion, summertime is a long occasion for the reading of good books.
MoreHICKS: Derivatives don't deserve their scary reputation
June 12, 2010
Mike HicksOne major part of the legislation will target derivatives. This is an arena where the financial services industry does itself
no good from a public relations sense.
MoreHICKS: State both good, bad in human-capital game
June 5, 2010
Mike HicksSuppose we lived in a perfectly flat world that is a vast, featureless plain of identical square counties.
MoreHICKS: Memorial Day puts economics in perspective
May 29, 2010
Mike Hicksthe things that determine our ultimate prosperity and happiness are not the vacillations of markets.
MoreHICKS: State lucky to have community foundations
May 22, 2010
Mike HicksA good community foundation knows when there is an unmet need. After faith-based organizations, nobody is closer to understanding
immediate needs better than a strong community foundation.
MoreHICKS: Learn from Greece and live within your means
May 15, 2010
Mike HicksGreece will enter a generation of austerity in which its best and brightest young people will leave for Europe or America.
MoreHICKS: Fear, not economics, drives immigration debate
May 8, 2010
Mike HicksMexico is in the throes of a violent lawlessness that is spilling over into the United States. Dealing with this is neither
racist nor unconstitutional.
MoreHICKS: How competition sped up broadband adoption
May 1, 2010
Mike HicksOur study found that simply permitting deregulation of cable TV caused a pleasing increase in broadband adoption.
MoreHICKS: Unemployment situation brings up questions
April 24, 2010
Mike HicksPerhaps the biggest problem is in estimating who is in and not in the formal work force. Even in good times, a surprising
number of workers labor in the shadow economy, invisible to government statisticians.
MoreHICKS: Educated athletes add value to the magic
April 10, 2010
Mike HicksThe greater truth is that what we learn from athletics might be just as important as what we learn in the classroom.
MoreHICKS: President chooses wisely with recent donation
April 3, 2010
Mike HicksWhy not treat charitable deductions the same way we treat most retirement savingsâ??extend the deadline until April 15?
MoreHICKS: Health care battle won, but what about war?
March 27, 2010
Mike HicksThe potential flaws in this bill are so enormous that to opponents of the bill it looks like planned failure, designed to
usher in a national health service.
MoreHICKS: Taxation not top factor in attracting business
March 20, 2010
Mike HicksBusinesses care about taxes to be sure, but the availability of a pool of well-trained workers is at the forefront of most
business-location decisions.
MoreHICKS: Recession slows with costly job creation
March 13, 2010
Mike HicksWhile economists share broad agreement on a surprisingly large number of issues, the most visible discord lies in how two
groups view the causes of recession.
MoreHICKS: Courage will be necessary to curb inflation
March 6, 2010
Mike HicksInflation causes lenders to raise interest rates. Businesses slow their borrowing, produce less and require fewer workers.
Within a year or so, inflation becomes everyoneâ??s problem.
MoreHICKS: Cash-strapped cities paying for prior choices
February 27, 2010
Mike HicksWe are making budget cuts today that could well have been slowly phased-in for a generation. What are the implications?
MoreHICKS: Tenure is protectionism in a tweed jacket
February 20, 2010
Mike HicksAcademic tenure, with its promise of lifelong employment based upon five to seven years of work experience, is silly and
makes those of us who have pursued a career in teaching and research look disingenuous.
MoreHICKS: A growing love connection to new media
February 13, 2010
Mike HicksChanges in media, especially new media,
will alter the life of my kindergartner. I am no futurist, but it seems to me that three big trends are clearly emerging.
MoreHICKS: Economic uncertainty is crushing job growth
February 6, 2010
Mike HicksBusinesses take risks. Risk tolerance is
the hallmark of a successful businessman and entrepreneur. But those same businesses dread uncertainty.
MoreHICKS: So far, federal stimulus plan isn't stimulating
January 30, 2010
Mike HicksIt has been roughly a year since the passage of the economic stimulus, formally the more harmonious American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act. This stimulus is a textbook example of what we economists call counter-cyclical fiscal policy.
MoreHICKS: When it comes to migration, people follow the money
January 23, 2010
Mike HicksFolks tend to migrate to warmer, sunnier and more tax-friendly places.
MoreHICKS: Urban-to-rural state tax flow makes sense
January 16, 2010
Mike HicksWith only a few exceptions, tax dollars flow from urban counties to rural counties.
MoreHICKS: Civic perceptions and economic development
January 9, 2010
Mike HicksThere is certainly plenty of anecdotal evidence that what folks believe about a community matters for its economic fortunes.
MoreHICKS: Bloomington's chain store debate a tough sell
January 2, 2010
Mike HicksWe have this little thing called an equal protection clause that prevents us singling out so clearly a chain store.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.