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Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies.
Beacon Economics publishes a variety of online reports that analyze and forecast the U.S., California, and California regional economies. These publications provide users with the latest data, and with substantive commentary on the overall direction of the economy, employment and unemployment, international trade, real estate markets, consumer and business spending, and much more. The reports represent only a sampling of the kind of analysis Beacon Economics produces.
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People should respond to real experiences more than to the labels attached to those experiences – that’s the concept of the rational agent. In practice, however, labels do matter… a lot.
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It’s Time To Relearn Objectivity In 2021 Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. Economic Policy, General Economy, Social Issues January 21, 2021 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles When I left the academic world to found Beacon Economics 15 years ago, it was partly in response to a gap in the quality of research I saw being performed on campus...
Prop 15 Analysis: Clarification Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy, General Economy October 2, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles Beacon Economics takes great pride in both the quality and objectivity of its work and stands firmly behind the conclusions of its recent analysis of Proposition 15 (https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/documents/scf/SVCF_Beacon_Prop_15_Analysis_9_2020.pdf). The study looks at one portion of the...
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...