The ACA and Uncertainty around Business Health Care Insurance Premiums
The Affordable Care Act has engendered varying degrees of uncertainty among businesses of all sizes, but its potential impact on...
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changeSourcing helps improve innovation and service quality
By Mark Reeves, Partner Innovation and service quality are critical for banks to succeed. Business and technology change initiatives play...
Gone Phishing: How Your Employees’ Bad Security Habits Can Impact Your Business
Full of typos and bad grammar, fraudulent e-mails used to be easy to spot. But as technologies--and criminals--grow more sophisticated,...
Water, Water Everywhere: An Update on the Georgia Economy
Georgia's unseasonably plentiful rainfall has relieved the state's drought conditions, and steady improvement in the employment sector has brought relief...
Modest Growth and Optimism Continue in the Summer
Business contacts continue to be upbeat about growth prospects for their companies over the near and longer term. Southeastern Insights...
Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default
Kristopher Gerardi, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Lee E. Ohanian, and Paul S. Willen. Working Paper 2013-4 (August). Although job loss and...
Labor Market Tools Updated with July Data
The U.S. economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in July. The Atlanta Fed's Jobs Calculator and labor market spider chart...
What a Difference a Month Makes? Maybe Not Much
Today's employment report fell somewhat short of expectations. Does that mean much for future policy moves? This macroblog post plugs...
Deflation Probability Declines Further
The 2013-18 deflation probability, based on the 5-year TIPS issued in April and the 10-year TIPS issued in July 2008,...
Government Policy and the Crisis: The Case of the Community Reinvestment Act
Many commentators believe that the Community Reinvestment Act significantly contributed to the recent mortgage foreclosure crisis. Real Estate Research looks...
