Category: News
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The Marketplace of Ideas is Indeed a Marketplace
By Tim Shea Special Contributor A couple weeks back, my wife and I found ourselves in the Twin Cities visiting family. Partly to satisfy her shopping cravings, partly to get a little time away from said family, the two of us decided to spend an afternoon at the Mall of America. And so I found…
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The Advantage of Regional Economic Development Alliances
By Tim Shea Special Contributor In the modern American economy, there are two ways to go about “creating” jobs. The first is to provide some good or service, the demand for which is so great that you are unable to handle it all yourself, and you therefore hire an additional person or persons to help…
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Rockford, Ill., program moves police officers into the neighborhoods they patrol
A client of Angeloueconomics, Rockford, Illinois, is making national news with its new police-community initiative. Read more on this Wall Street Journal article.
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Amazon’s HQ2: An Upside Down Take on Site Selection
By William Mellor Vice President, AE Bravo, Amazon. Well played. Nothing gets people talking like announcing a $5 billion HQ investment that will create 50,000 jobs in whichever community comes out on top. Their approach was genius: state the requirements of the site, outline some general expectations, drop a few not-so-subtle hints that incentives…
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How Much Do Immigrants Actually Cost Taxpayers?
By Anthony Michael Project Manager Today, President Trump officially ended the DACA program – an Obama era policy which allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to gain protection from deportation and receive renewable work permits. The President is certainly acting within his authority to discontinue DACA – however, we wanted to take…
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Will your Tax Rate Increase Under Tax Reform?
Anthony Michael Project Manager Last week, AE released its analysis on President Trump’s Tax Reform proposal, which you can find here. After releasing the article, we received a lot of feedback and questions about how the proposed tax reform will impact Texas households. Given these requests, we decided to begin a mini-series that will examine…
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The Keys to the Economic Vitality of Main Streets
Nicholas Samuel Project Manager/Director of Research Downtowns and Main Street districts, both of which could be considered types of central business districts, are typically the home to the greatest concentration of businesses for an urban area. While some are neither centrally located or are a central part of an urban area’s primary businesses, most,…
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Tax Reform: What Does it Mean for Texas?
By Anthony Michael Project Manager Since taking office in November, tax reform has been a top legislative item for the Trump administration. After missing out on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the administration does not want to miss its chance to make lasting change to the current tax system. Using details released during…
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Petra Nova: Incremental Progress in the War on Carbon
Though it might sound like a futuristic punk band—or maybe just remind you of failed television—the Petra Nova project is quite real. In fact, it is currently the largest retrofit post-combustion carbon capture system in the world. A collaboration between NRG Energy and JX All Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration, the facility uses carbon sequestration…
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Have We Hit Peak [Craft] Beer?
Nowadays, if you walk around any good-sized city long enough, it seems like you’ll inevitably stumble upon a familiar scene: large metal vats sitting in a large warehouse, usually being worked on by white dudes in baseball hats. We’re talking, of course, of craft breweries. The ubiquitous nature of this scene speaks clearly of the…