Cities classified by economic base. By Glenn Mueller, PhDNote: FIRE stands for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate 

Economic Update
(Monday, May 31, 2021)
The one place that's rip-roaring in our economy is the housing market. In fact, home prices are accelerating, as the Case-Shiller 20-City Index shows. Year-on-year gains rose ...

The area I’m from has recently suffered a massive economic down turn with the loss of about 700 40k plus salaries, while already being smacked by the opioid epidemic. I hope this doesn’t sound to cold but there’s a lo...

I am looking at a building about an hour outside of Albany New York. It's in a small town of 8,000. Although the list price of the property is $79k, it is currently fully occupied and brings in $2,200 gross rent/month...

I send out a regular email to our investors (many of whom are out-of-state) to give them a rundown on important stories in the Boise Metro Area that impact economic growth and/or development.  I have found that for ma...

Hey BP, if anyone knows has any good current economy podcasts, people who know what they are talking about. Nationwide or Florida Specific, please let me know of you have a minute.With that said, if anyone else has an...

Obama keeps stating that the failed policies of the last eight years are to blame for the current economic crisis. Certainly a boatload of mistakes were made by the Bush administration. However, many people, myself ...

Economic Update
(Monday, July 6, 2020)
The big economic news this week is the second straight employment report which surpassed expectations. Nearly all of the data indicates that the recovery from the partial shut...

Many blessings to all,
My name is Martin Jenkins I’m in the Augusta ga area. I thinking about using the brrr strategy using group economics in my household. Collectively there is three of us and we have access to abo...

Economic Update
(Monday, June 15, 2020)
It’s official: The longest expansion in U.S. history ended in February as the economy fell into a deep recession, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (“NBER”...