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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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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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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...
A GDP Reality Check Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy July 27, 2018 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles The 4.1% growth rate in U.S. Gross Domestic Product in the 2nd quarter (announced today) was not a surprise to anyone looking at the monthly numbers. In fact, it came in a bit below the consensus prediction...
‘ We Have Nothing To Fear But the Fear of Inflation Itself Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy July 17, 2018 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles ‘Inflation expectation disorder’ seems to have become a full pandemic lately. News story after news story is discussing accelerating price growth not as a possible new trend, but as...