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By Tim Shea Special Contributor  By the conventional wisdom of modern American politics, immigration is pretty clear-cut, partisan-line issue: conservatives prefer a more restrictionist approach, while liberals prefer to be more, well, liberal on the matter. As of late, even the GOP’s relatively benevolent attitudes towards legal immigration are no longer a sure thing. A…

Leisure travel airline customers can travel to places around the world at rates cheaper than ever before. This is due to increased transparency of fares on sites like Kayak, Expedia, Google Flights and a myriad of other sites that help customers sift through the airline options to satiate their unrelenting quest for the cheapest fare.…

On April 26th, 2017, President Trump’s White House released the first draft of the highly anticipated tax reform package promised during the 2016 election. Though only a single page, the document contained a number of major proposals, and is easily one of the most important policy measures to come out of the president’s much-vaunted and…

In introductory economics courses, students are taught a basic production model in which outputs are produced by a combination of two inputs: capital and labor. Though undeniably simplistic, this model captures the fundamental optimization problem faced by companies. Namely, in order to succeed, firms must not only acquire the necessary physical capital—office space, equipment, access…

Angelos presents at a session during the recent LiveXchange conference in Park City, UT. The topic was mentoring entrepreneurs, where he talked about the International Accelerator and trends he has been seeing in entrepreneurship. Check out the full article and gain acccess to the presentation!

An abundant supply of a natural resource in an economy is both a blessing and a curse: the economy can have an absolute advantage in specialized production, however, when an entire economy is built on that one resource, it lacks a sturdy, broad foundation, and may become victim to recession and global competition. Diversified economies…

C3 Presents released the findings of the economic impact study that was completed by AngelouEconomics earlier this year. The total economic impact of 2016’s ACL Fest? $277.4 million! Check out the article for more detials.  

The computers haven’t taken over today. Yet, they are seeping their way to affect our daily lives. Artificial intelligence (“AI”), a term first coined 60 years ago by British computer scientist Alan Turing, is proposed to occur when a question-asker could not distinguish between answers from a human and those from a computer. Today, powerful…

US airlines burn through fuel. The industry uses 1,440,000[1] barrels of jet fuel per day. At a rate of $66.5/barrel[2], the US airline industry spends $95.76 million every day to fuel its planes. Jet fuel is the largest expenditure for airlines with fuel costs accounting for around 10% of an airline’s operating costs.[3] Jet fuel…

Bathroom bills like Senate Bill 6 and now House Bill 2899 have been hotly contested issues in Texas’ current legislative session. On the surface, both bills may appear to be inherently different, but the response from the business community has remained the same: Businesses will not tolerate any form of discriminatory legislation. Recently, AngelouEconomics (AE)…