December 24, 2010

Econ Matters: When will it begin to feel like a recovery?

As 2010 ends, many of Columbia’s economic indicators have shown modest improvement compared with a year ago. Further, the National Bureau of Economic Research experts on business cycles proscribed that the recession ended in June 2009. So at the national level, we must have spent more than a year enjoying economic recovery. Although there were

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From the Roundtable: How Columbia should feel about year-end economic condition

Why did the local economy get a bit of a breather this year compared with much of the rest of the USA? Perhaps it’s because Columbia is the University of Missouri’s “factory town” and harbors major medical and insurance complexes while toting other economic perks too numerous to enumerate. Although a modest recovery has been

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