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Thursday, April 9, 2020 |
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COVID Crisis: Hawaii #1 Search for Payday Loans
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 3351 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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...Hawaii #1 in search for 'payday loans', but #42 in search for home equity loans....
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Thursday, April 9, 2020 |
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Governor Ige creates new position for old boy – Oshima responsible for economic, community recovery or something
By News Release @ 7:40 PM :: 4502 Views :: Ethics, Economy, COVID-19
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...In February, Oshima became the senior executive advisor of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO) after serving five years as its president and chief executive officer....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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A Visual Guide to Unemployment Benefit Claims
By Tax Foundation @ 1:50 AM :: 4275 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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...8.9% of Hawaii's workforce was receiving or filing for unemployment as of March 28, 2020....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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State Economies Most Exposed to Coronavirus
By Selected News Articles @ 12:55 AM :: 3260 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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...It’s led to the closing of scores of non-essential events and businesses, hurting the livelihood of many people....
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Thursday, April 2, 2020 |
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States with the Biggest Increase in Unemployment--Hawaii 15th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:49 PM :: 4541 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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...unemployment claim increases for the week of March 23....
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Thursday, April 2, 2020 |
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OHA urges Governor to increase relief for renters
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 4058 Views :: Economy, OHA, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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...urging the adoption of additional policies to close critical gaps left by the new federal moratorium on evictions and the state’s recent emergency orders....
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Thursday, April 2, 2020 |
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UHERO: What is the COVID-19 exit strategy?
By UHERO @ 2:35 AM :: 3528 Views :: Economy, Tourism, COVID-19
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...Herd Immunity or Containment through Test and Trace?....
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Monday, March 30, 2020 |
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Economists Expect 140,000 Unemployed
By UHERO @ 11:26 PM :: 3652 Views :: Economy, Tourism, COVID-19
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...the job count will average 11% lower than 2019 for the year as a whole, and real income will be more than 3% lower. Visitor arrivals for the year will be down an astounding 41%....
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Saturday, March 28, 2020 |
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COVID Relief Bill Directs Minimum $1.25B to Hawaii
By Ed Case @ 4:32 AM :: 3246 Views :: Economy, COVID-19
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...Measure includes critical funds for Hawai‘i workers, families, businesses and health care providers....
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Friday, March 27, 2020 |
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COVID Recession: Hawaii, Nevada Likely to be Hit Hardest
By Selected News Articles @ 7:21 PM :: 4118 Views :: Economy, Tourism, COVID-19
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...More than one in four jobs in Nevada, Hawaii and Wyoming are at risk....
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Thursday, March 19, 2020 |
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February 2020: Hawaii Hotels Set Another Record
By News Release @ 3:47 AM :: 3091 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...All classes of Hawai‘i hotel properties statewide reported higher RevPAR and ADR in February compared to a year ago....
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Friday, March 13, 2020 |
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Corona Virus Reality Check
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:03 PM :: 3537 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Taxes
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...It’s time to discard its big-spending plans and focus on ways to help the economy recover quickly....
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Thursday, March 12, 2020 |
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Minimum Wage Hike will Worsen Corona Virus Recession
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 4464 Views :: Economy, Labor, Small Business, Tourism
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...Testimony on proposed minimum-wage increase....
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020 |
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COVID19: Hawaii Tourism Drops 35% Since March 1
By UHERO @ 3:31 AM :: 4365 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Tourism
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...In the past two weeks, things have changed markedly, and a SARS-type V-shaped path is now too optimistic....
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020 |
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Is Hawaii Prepared for a Recession?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:56 PM :: 4005 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Taxes
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... the "coronavirus recession" and what Hawaii can do financially to cope with it ....
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Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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Speaker Names Corona Virus Economic Working Group
By News Release @ 10:38 PM :: 3899 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Health Care
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...House Speaker Scott K. Saiki today announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the Select House Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness adopted through House Resolution 54....
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020 |
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HR 54 Corona Virus: House Select Committee Formed
By News Release @ 12:12 AM :: 5615 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Health Care
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...During the recession of 2008, the state government was forced to reduce the school week to four days, cut millions of dollars from social programs, and reduce public employee salaries by 5 percent....
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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Hawaii is 8th-Richest State--But you'll never see any of it
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 5119 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii is the 8th-richest state but has the 5th-lowest per capita income in USA....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020 |
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'Coronavirus recession' could put Hawaii in $3.8 billion hole by 2025
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:05 PM :: 4288 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Health Care
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...Reckless state spending is exhausting our emergency reserves....
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Monday, February 24, 2020 |
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UHERO: Corona Virus May Damage State Economy
By UHERO @ 5:02 PM :: 4085 Views :: Economy, Health Care, Tourism
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...While visitor arrivals racked up another record year in 2019, real visitor spending fell last year as international spending languished. And now the coronavirus rears its ugly head....
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Friday, February 21, 2020 |
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Poor economy is medical threat, too
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:20 PM :: 3130 Views :: Economy, Health Care
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...In times of crisis, we are likely to be held back by the same problems that affect us now — the doctor shortage, the shipping restrictions caused by the Jones Act....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020 |
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Video: Solving Hawaii's Fiscal Crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:31 AM :: 3263 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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...how Hawaii can avoid its looming major debt crisis, projected at the moment to total $88 billion the next 30 years....
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Thursday, January 30, 2020 |
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Charting a New Fiscal Course for Hawaii: Fiscal Architecture Approach
By UHERO @ 1:49 AM :: 4358 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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...a case for the Hawaii community to focus on “the future fiscal capacity of Hawaii state and local governments.”....
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 |
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Full Text: DBEDT Releases Housing Planning Study
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 4332 Views :: Development, Economy, Cost of Living
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...Included in the study are data on housing supply, demand, and estimates of housing units needed by levels of affordability....
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Friday, January 17, 2020 |
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Ige's philosophy: Spend, spend, spend
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:12 PM :: 3369 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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...Ige plans to “boost” the construction industry by increasing the number of public works projects....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy enters soft patch
By UHERO @ 1:00 AM :: 4235 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...The state’s population has been declining for the past three years, in part because of outward migration....
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 |
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Hawaii Credit Rating Upgraded to Highest Level Ever
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 4205 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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... Fitch Ratings upgraded the state’s general obligation bond rating from AA to AA+ ....
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Friday, November 22, 2019 |
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Road Map to Prosperity
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:17 PM :: 3026 Views :: Economy
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... Why is Hawaii falling behind? ....
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Thursday, November 21, 2019 |
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Hawaii: 22.3% of Movers Leaving State
By Selected News Articles @ 2:36 AM :: 5383 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...2nd-highest in the USA....
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019 |
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DBEDT: Hawaii's Worst-in-Nation Economy to Continue 'For Years'
By News Release @ 6:04 PM :: 4025 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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“...Year-to-date through September, total visitor spending was a negative 0.1 percent and value of private building permits decreased by 7.2 percent....”
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Friday, November 15, 2019 |
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BEA: Hawaii Economic Growth Slowest in USA
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 3924 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Wholesale trade was the leading contributor to slow growth in Hawaii....
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Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
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Economic freedom in Hawaii takes a fall
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:31 PM :: 3547 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... Economic freedom in Hawaii dropped three notches to 40th place among all 50 U.S. states ....
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Friday, November 1, 2019 |
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Hawaiians & the Economy: We're in The Same Boat as Everyone!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:46 PM :: 5842 Views :: DHHL, Economy, OHA, Cost of Living
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...if we work to do good for all people of Hawai'i, we end up helping Hawaiians....
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 |
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Why we have a Housing Crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:33 AM :: 5518 Views :: Development, Economy, Land Use
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...When supply can’t keep up with demand, prices go up....
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Monday, October 14, 2019 |
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Fastest-Growing Cities? Honolulu Ranks 407th
By Selected News Articles @ 4:55 PM :: 4517 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...some cities know the key ingredients for long-term prosperity better than others....
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Thursday, October 10, 2019 |
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Friday, September 20, 2019 |
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Economy Already Weak: Hawaii’s prospects look increasingly dicey
By UHERO @ 7:00 AM :: 3120 Views :: Economy
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...population decline and vacation rental crackdown place economy at risk....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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People are the solution, not the problem
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:32 PM :: 2934 Views :: Economy
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...Obviously, Thanos wasn’t an economist....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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Hawaii: 'Natural Resources Management' Jobs up 33%
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 5862 Views :: Environment, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use
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...Hawai‘i’s natural resource management jobs were at least 4,697 in 2018....
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 |
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Hawaii 2nd Most Likely to Slip into Recession
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 AM :: 3887 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Probability of weak economic fundamentals in Q4 2019: 30.53%....
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Friday, August 23, 2019 |
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DBEDT: Economic Outlook Stable--too Early to Detect Effects of TVR Ban
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 5140 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Tourism
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...The impact of the vacation rental ban on Oahu has not yet been seen in visitor arrivals....
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019 |
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Is the government helping or hurting the Hawaii economy?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:50 PM :: 4528 Views :: Economy, Small Business
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... minimum wage, the Hawaii brain drain, and Trump tariffs ....
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019 |
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"F" Again -- Hawaii Manufacturing and Logistics Scorecard
By News Release @ 10:22 PM :: 5175 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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...The Manufacturing Scorecard shows how each state ranks among its peers in several categories that are of particular interest to site selection experts for the manufacturing and logistics industries....
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Monday, July 22, 2019 |
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U.S. Insular Areas Aid Supports More than 26,000 Jobs
By News Release @ 4:44 PM :: 4498 Views :: National News, Economy
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...the impact on government employment ranged from three to 17 percent in the territories and close to 45 percent in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands....
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019 |
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Free Market Economics with Mark Skousen
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:28 AM :: 3140 Views :: Economy
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...Skousen discusses with host Keli'i Akina what free-market economics is and why we should promote it....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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‘Positive disruptor’ shares policy views on 'Perry & the Posse'
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:04 AM :: 5641 Views :: Economy, Small Business, Tourism
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...“Let’s not kill the goose that lays the golden egg”....
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Friday, June 28, 2019 |
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VIDEO: Why People are Leaving Hawai'i
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:20 AM :: 6346 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii residents have been moving away from the islands in droves in recent years; in fiscal 2017, more than 13,000 people departed — the highest negative net migration ever....
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 |
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It’s the Economy, Stupid
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 5251 Views :: Economy, Taxes
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...Recently, we have been getting lots of news about our economy here in the islands, and none of it has been good....
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Friday, June 21, 2019 |
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Inspired by ‘simplicity and efficiency’
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:45 PM :: 4451 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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...the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii “quietly chips away at the stone of economic issues in Hawaii”....
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