The year is halfway over and the economy is improving locally and nationally. But the topic of economic recovery is still uppermost in the minds of most consumers and small-business owners. Nationwide, large corporations are “very bullish” on the economy, said Richard Wobbekind, director of the business research division at Leeds School of Business, University [...]
The economy, as sobering as it is, occasionally has its humorous moments. Take yesterday’s Institute of Real Estate Management Economic Forecast breakfast, for example. The event’s several hundred attendees were treated to overviews from three residential, commercial and multifamily real estate experts along with perspective from Land Title Guaranty’s Sara Martin and Colorado Springs Economic [...]
Continue reading …For two years, I’ve had occasion to admire the ability of economists to deliver dire, dour and detrimental news, while keeping an audience not only awake, but laughing. And I was not disappointed at Vectra Bank’s Economic Forecast breakfast at Cheyenne Mountain Resort. Keynote speakers were Dr. Tom Zwirlein, professor of finance at the University [...]
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