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The holidays have always been a time of higher-than-normal consumer spending. However, a drift downward in spending at this festive time of year has been occurring for years. This is likely a function of many things, the most important of which may be the decline in the number of children in the United States.
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COVID-19 and the Creative Economy: Bruised, Not Broken Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy, General Economy May 27, 2020 Author: Adam J. Fowler Adam J. Fowler All Articles This article was co-authored by Practice Lead, Mazen Bou Zeineddine. It was originally published by the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development. The current public health crisis resulting from the...
The Job-pocalypse? Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Consumers, General Economy, Healthcare May 8, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles The April employment report was released this morning and the grim tidings it delivered, while anticipated, were still quite startling. The U.S. unemployment rate shot to 14.7%, over 11 percentage points higher than in February, even as the number...
The Expansion is Dead, Long Live the Expansion Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies blog, Consumers, General Economy, Healthcare April 30, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles As Beacon Economics has written in our published outlooks over the past six weeks, a true understanding of what is currently happening in the economy is limited given the delay in receiving relevant...