No Nonsense Economics
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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Miserabilism and Money: Why More Stimulus Is A Bad Idea (part 1) Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. Budgets & Deficits, Economic Policy February 18, 2021 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles Last year’s COVID-19 stimulus and relief packages enacted by the Federal government played some positive role in helping the U.S. economy weather the pandemic-driven recession that has...
Congrats California! We’ve Met Climate Change Goals Early But Can We Rise To The Challenges Ahead? Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. Environment February 9, 2021 Author: Hoyu Chong Hoyu Chong All Articles After meeting the goals of its landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) four years early in 2016, California’s progress on climate change has stalled – and it will...
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...