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Commentaries tagged with economic development

January 11, 2010	Civic Perceptions and Economic DevelopmentMany people feel perceptions of their city matters.
May 18, 2009	Tourism Spending - a Tough QuestionIf Indiana is to be marketed as a region, then government will be the one to do it.
April 27, 2009	'Buy Local' Offers No Protection for Bad BusinessesIn the long run, only good businesses survive, whether or not 'buy local' is the mantra.
March 16, 2009	Providing Amenities is Economic DevelopmentIn the short run, workers follow jobs, but in the long run, jobs follow workers.
December 1, 2008	Budget Realities Call for Painful ChoicesShrinking pains can be as difficult as growing pains.
October 20, 2008	In the Midst of All This Joyless Market WatchingImportant economic news for East Central Indiana has been overshadowed by financial markets.
August 18, 2008	Investment in Rail Transport LikelyExpanded rail service is good news for the Crossroads of America.
January 7, 2008	The Real China Threat“An affluent China is far more likely to be a peaceful world partner than if it remained a struggling economy.”
December 24, 2007	A Lump of Coal for Michigan“Indiana has an economic climate that fosters job creation.”
October 1, 2007	The Tough Road to Financing Transportation"Perhaps the biggest problem facing the state is the belief that government alone can solve the problems of transportation infrastructure and the movement of goods and people”
August 13, 2007	Is the Indiana Economy Growing?"... those job counts miss a lot of things that factor into the prosperity of communities around the state."
July 16, 2007	A New Take on the New Deal"...for all of its economic failings, the New Deal was a colossal political success, and tinkering with the economy has remained popular ever since."
June 18, 2007	Will Indiana Always Lag in Job Growth? "...despite the easy answers you may hear to this riddle in your break room or hallway, getting at the reasons why is harder than you think."
April 30, 2007	Is Health Care An Economic Driver? "...the business opportunities in health care have been sufficient to attract plenty of investment without any sweeteners coming from the public purse."
April 23, 2007	Another Take on Scoring the Indiana Economy "...personal income is the single most comprehensive measure of our economic performance at the state and regional level."
April 9, 2007	Indiana Employment Update "... [T]he real story in Indiana employment growth is what we are much less certain about, namely, payroll growth in the services producing side of the economy."
September 11, 2006	Productivity is Great, But What Is It? "It’s hard to find a workplace that the information revolution hasn’t touched in some significant way."
August 7, 2006	Transition in Growth for the U.S. Economy "The best news for Indiana has been the surprising, sustained strength of the industrial sector."
June 12, 2006	Motor Vehicle Jobs: Past or Future? "Can Indiana swim against the tide and gain motor vehicle parts and assembly jobs in the coming years?"
May 22, 2006	Connecting to Chicago "...we’re all part of the upper Midwest, and the center of gravity in our part of the universe is on the shores of Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois."
May 15, 2006	Re-Inventing Government "Economic development in particular has been hamstrung by the disconnectedness between silos of government."
May 1, 2006	Getting Started on a New Indiana Economy "The state doesn’t have billions sitting in a bank account ready to be invested in plants and facilities to put Hoosiers to work in high paying jobs"
April 24, 2006	An Early Read on the State Economy in 2006 "A solid appraisal of state job growth involves more than just picking a couple of monthly employment numbers out of a hat."
April 17, 2006	What Does a Diversified Economy Look Like? " There will likely be no large new employers coming to every town, gobbling up workers by the hundreds or thousands, offering lifetime employment for generations the way manufacturing companies once did."
April 10, 2006	Understanding Urban Growth"The health of the body is what’s important, not the health of the separate limbs."
April 3, 2006	Getting Realistic About Deficits "The fixes will involve more taxes and less spending"
February 20, 2006	Services Jobs Come to Muncie " Those who anticipate working in an environment where tasks and hours are standardized, with flat rate compensation, and where raises and promotions accrue with seniority may be in for surprise. "
January 20, 2006	How We Handle Failure Matters"The nice thing about failure, if there is anything nice about it, is that it provides you with good information."
January 6, 2006	Aligning Workforce and Economic Development"... the labor demands of the production side of the economy have shrunk to the point where the industrial sector simply can’t anchor the economic base the way it once did."
December 30, 2005	Riding the Wave of Interest in Development"... the dramatic increase in talk of spurring economic growth has not necessarily been matched by advances in the state of knowledge in how it should be done."
December 2, 2005	Economy Ending the Year Strong "For economists, reading these upbeat reports on the economy makes us feel a little like Indianapolis Colts fans do as they read their Monday morning sports sections."
November 18, 2005	Distinguishing Ourselves From the Competition"In the coming decade, it’s a pretty safe bet that distinctions between Midwest states like Indiana and the rest of the country will become more blurred, but that day isn’t here yet."
November 4, 2005	Another Failing Technology Grade "... as once backwater states like Idaho and Utah move up the rankings while we remain stationary, one can only ask, why can’t it happen here?"
May 6, 2005	Private Sector Management Meets Public Sector Challenges "If we do a poor job in providing public services, we risk driving talented people and new investment away, and shrinking the pie for everyone."
March 25, 2005	Enjoy Growth While It Still Lasts "When businesses throttle back on their spending plans, as they must do eventually, Indiana’s growth will more closely resemble its historical trend."
March 4, 2005	More Wind in the Sails of Job Growth "...the new century U.S. economy is still one of the brightest stars on the global stage when it comes to growth."
February 4, 2005	Indiana's New Metropolitan Areas "It reminds us that the forces of growth continue to push and redefine the borders of our regional economies."
January 28, 2005	Fed Hits the Bull's Eye "...truth be told, it’s been luck more than skill that brought the economic throttle down so smoothly"
January 21, 2005	Convention Centers as Economic Development "There’s been something like an arms race happening in the convention center business over the last ten years"
October 29, 2004	A Surprisingly Good Quarter "The third quarter GDP report solidifies the view that the U.S. economy is still successfully managing the challenges of its post-recession recovery."
October 15, 2004	Data and Quasi-Data "If research does not adequately distinguish between what we know, and what we don’t know, then it can fail us when we need it."
September 10, 2004	Placing Bets on Our Economic Future "... we need to focus on increasing investment by companies that do business with the world outside our community’s borders."
September 3, 2004	Best Practices for Economic Development "What communities do to attract specific companies to locate within their borders can do more harm than the good things spawned by the new investment."
August 6, 2004	Small Business and Economic Growth "Higher rates of job destruction – matched by high rates of job creation – are consistently associated with faster economic growth."
June 11, 2004	Can We Afford to Buy New Jobs? "There isn’t enough money in the public till to simply pay companies to create jobs where we want them."
May 28, 2004	Are We Missing the Obvious? "... the recovery in the U.S. economy is obvious to those of us who make a daily diet of the statistics which detail its performance."
May 21, 2004	The Challenge for Growth in Indiana, Part II "... how could we go about changing the Indiana economy so we can start climbing, instead of falling, in the rankings of economic performance and prosperity?."
May 14, 2004	The Challenge for Growth in Indiana "We remain a production oriented state with a less skilled, less educated, and less well paid work force in an economy that continues to grow in a different direction."
May 7, 2004	GDP is Nice, but Job Growth is Better "There was good news on just about every page of the April jobs report."
April 30, 2004	The Untapped Potential of Public Sector Innovation "The forces of competition that prod organizations to innovate and modernize in order to survive aren’t the same in the public sector."
March 26, 2004	Indiana’s Regions Are a Study in Contrasts "The degree to which the workforce in the 11 economic regions outside Indianapolis are concentrated in production-related occupations that do not require advanced educational credentials is stunning."
January 30, 2004	Getting to Know Indiana 's Labor Force "Outside of Indianapolis , we have retained an emphasis on production-related activities in our state that was shed by the rest of the country years ago.
January 23, 2004	Where Should Our Leaders Take Us? " ... the economy has been transforming before our eyes, from mass production to what might be called mass specialization."
December 5, 2003	Tracking the State Economy: It's a Whole Different Game "It is ironic that in this, the information age, we are actually receiving less data than in years past on states and regions."
October 31, 2003	Now That's What I Call Growth "The news that the overall economy grew at a blistering 7.2 percent annual rate during the months July through September effectively closes the book on the 2001 recession."
June 27, 2003	No Community Left Behind "In the last decade and a half, jobs in production-related occupations have not only failed to keep up with hiring in the rest of the economy, in most lines of work they’ve actually shrunk in number."
April 18, 2003	The Message in Population Movements "The development problems faced by the faster and slower growing regions of the state are quite different in nature."
April 4, 2003	Taking Stock of the U.S. Economy "From the reports on employment, industrial activity, and retail sales, there have been very few safe harbors from the stagnation that descended over businesses and consumers alike."
March 28, 2003	Can Energize Indiana Run on Just One Battery? "We're in a race to attract new capital and new residents to spread their roots in our communities, and you don't make that happen by reneging on promises and changing the rules."
February 14, 2003	Rewards to Skill Just Keep Growing "Whichever way you look at it, the distribution of income in this country -- as in other developed nations -- has widened significantly."
August 24, 2001	Who Deserves the Credit for Economic Growth? "What passes for a market economy on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and in the state of Indiana as well, contains a stronger dose of governmental planning, coordination, and regulation than we sometimes admit."
August 17, 2001	History Offers Old Lessons for the New Economy "History has shown that it takes anywhere from six to twelve months for changes in Fed policy to show up in the performance of the economy."
July 27, 2001	U.S. Economy Still Growing, but Barely "Thanks to the American consumer, the U.S. economic expansion remains alive through the first half of the year."
July 20, 2001	In Search of Silver Linings "Whether you are a person who sees the glass half full or half empty, it has been difficult to do anything but tremble as the once-roaring engines of factories across the nation sputter and stall before our eyes."
July 13, 2001	Taking the Longer View on Economic Growth "Where will the central Indiana economy be in the year 2011? On its face, that's an almost impossible question to answer."
June 15, 2001	Indiana's Economic Growth a Matter of Perspective "We who live today in Indiana in the midst of a manufacturing-led economic downturn must ask ourselves the difficult question: are the jobs the state economy has lost in the last six months going to come back? "
April 27, 2001	U.S. Economic Growth: A Matter of Perspective? "The Bureau of Economic Analysis surprised many analysts by announcing that the U.S. economy actually accelerated slightly in the first quarter of 2001"

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