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The Connecticut Sentiment Index is DOWN, DOWN, DOWN: – 6.5 percent (from 61.3 in August to 57.3 in September).  No surprises here: we’ve been pummeled mercilessly this week. First there was the surprising departure of the much-coddled New Haven biot…

You wouldn't be able to tell from reading today's papers around Connecticut.  They are covering just about every trigger issue out there: from the state budget crisis, to Charlottesville, North Korea, Venezuela, and even Taylor Swift's groping.  But…

The July Connecticut Sentiment Index barely budged from its June level, inching from 57.7 to 57.9.  By contrast the University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment Index declined (-2.1%) between June and July. Survey of Consumers chief economist…

 Job Reallocation and Entrepreneurship: Decomposing Connecticut’s Recovery“Thanks for keeping me alive.”Searching for Sugar Man (2012)Has Connecticut’s economy lost its dynamism? Such an inquiry is necessary to establish whether our lack of vitality…

Happy to report that the Connecticut Sentiment Index is back!!  It was down for a period of retooling and learning.  The graph displays the current measure of the Index; for June, 2017 it stands at 57.7.I like to compare our index to the Michigan In…

In January 2016, General Electric announced it was relocating its current headquarters from Fairfield to Boston.  General Electric’s departure was a “punch in the gut,” as the Hartford Courant characterized it (Singer, 2016).  The GExit – or Gexit -…

Matt Bishop – is a student in my Decision-Making class. Matt is an avid basketball fan and a student of the game.  We used the method of indirect comparisons to fill in March Madness brackets; Matt did the heavy lifting, I kind of tagged along.   He…

This was going to be a contest of Experts vs. the Machine.  But I never heard back from the experts I contacted.  Except Ben Atwater.  Ben is the kid who runs the Collective.  He is also our in-house movie critic. You can see his latest reviews: Leg…

February 20, 2017 President’s Day  They didn’t like the outcome so they accused me of manipulating the data.  My students did. Today. In my afternoon class. Today was President’s Day.  It was also the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Brandenburg…

THE STUDENTS & FACULTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICSINVITE YOU TO A TALK BYDENIZ SENTURK"CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PATH OF QUANTITATIVE ROLES IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY"Thursday, February 23rd //4-5pm// Bartel's Alumni AnnexDeniz Senturk is a Senior V…

Let’s everyone take a break from draining the swamp and talk SuperBowl prognostications.I’m laying mine out here, right now. And further down – for those of you interested, I explain the model I used to obtain the forecast.Some PreliminariesIn the s…