Austin is growing at ludicrous speed, again.
Sometimes a broken record is worth playing anyway. The Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area added 101,700 jobs (9.1%) in February on a year-over-year basis, according to […]
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One out of three metro areas have recovered jobs lost during the pandemic, but this recession was unprecedented. Here’s why.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics published the November jobs report for metropolitan areas last week, providing an updated picture of the economic recovery at the […]
Read moreAre SMART goals a wise choice for economic developers?
Strategic planning, if taken seriously, is difficult. It requires forthright engagement, clear-eyed analysis, and a firm commitment among participants to hold each other accountable. And […]
Read moreChecking in on my hometown(s)
I’m on vacation this week visiting family in Raleigh, so I thought I would check in on what the recently released 2020 population data had […]
Read moreDid we make too much of Trump winning?
To the casual observer of national politics, myself included, Trump’s win in 2016 was surprising. Among serious pundits, Nate Silver was the reliably cooler head, […]
Read moreElon Musk is worth more than the entire Austin economy
This one is always fun. The wealthiest people in America, according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaire database (as of 10/01/2021), and how they stack […]
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