Periodically, StateImpact New Hampshire likes to check in with the Boston Fed to find out what forces analysts think are shaping the New England and national economies.Ā And we stumbled onto this deceptively dry-titled little gem of a report by Robert Clifford: “State Foreclosure Prevention Efforts in New England: Mediation and Assistance.” In his report, […]
NHPR’s All Things Considered Host Brady Carlson recently interviewed me aboutĀ the latest big StateImpact piece.Ā Check out the audio:
Michael McCord of the New Hampshire Business Review provides a good synopsis of why tenĀ hospital administrators are so upset about the latest state budget that they’ve filed a lawsuit.
Itās been a crazy couple of weeks, with financial tremors continuing to shake-up the jagged economic landscape. Ā National GDP barely went up, Congress made an 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, S&P downgraded the US credit rating anyway, and the Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steadyāat virtually nothingāfor the next two […]
After a brief rally, AP Business Writer Stan Choe reports in The Boston Globe that the markets are once again sliding back downhill: “The Dow Jones industrial average fell 413 points, or 3.7 percent, to 10,827in morning trading Wednesday. That erased nearly all of its 429 point gain from Tuesday, when the Federal Reserve pledged […]
Are New Hampshire’s low tax policies helping it attract economic development? The jumping-off point for this post, and a related post from last week, is data on theĀ movement of businesses and jobs between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.Ā The image perpetuated by area media more or less fits the mold of a piece in The BostonĀ Globe […]
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