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Ventura County’s recovery, by the numbers

By   /  Thursday, September 15th, 2011  /  Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Ventura County’s recovery, by the numbers

More than 3,000 private-sector jobs have been created in Ventura County over the last year, according to economists with the California Economic Forecast.

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Area economists pin region’s CRE rebound on labor markets

By   /  Friday, June 10th, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Area economists pin region’s CRE rebound on labor markets

Five area economists weigh in on the health of the region’s commercial real estate market.

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Tourism’s rising tide

By   /  Friday, January 7th, 2011  /  Features, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Tourism’s rising tide

After a brighter than expected 2010, tourism forecasters say 2011 will be a year for slow growth and recovery.

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UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes

By   /  Wednesday, December 8th, 2010  /  Latest news, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes

Higher taxes are an inevitable consequence of ad-hoc policymaking, according to UC Santa Barbara economics professor Peter Rupert. Rupert, who heads the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, told a breakfast audience of Santa Barbara-area business leaders on Dec. 8 that temporary subsidies such as “cash for clunkers” and payments to first-time homebuyers were largely useless. He Read More →

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Jobless data may portend broad recovery

By   /  Monday, November 29th, 2010  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Jobless data may portend broad recovery

The tri-county region is showing signs of digging itself out of a deep hole.

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Slow SLO recovery forecast

By   /  Friday, November 5th, 2010  /  Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Slow SLO recovery forecast

Like the rest of California, San Luis Obispo County is winding very slowly to a full economic recovery, forecasters at the Central Coast Economic Forecast said Nov. 5. The county’s unemployment rate currently hovers around 10 percent, and will likely stay above 6 percent until sometime in 2015, economists from the forecasting group Beacon Economics Read More →

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It’s a slow recovery all over the region in commercial real estate

By   /  Monday, November 1st, 2010  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on It’s a slow recovery all over the region in commercial real estate

Commercial real estate firms are also rolling out their third-quarter market reports.

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