In the wake of a pretty good 4Q09 and a nice opening 1Q10, time to ask: “How’s Consumer Confidence Doing?” Bakersfield has often performed counter-cyclical vis-a-vis the national economy, so I often wonder how we compare. Well, let’s look… On the National level, the go-to index since 1950 is the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s Consumer [...]
The Kern Economic Journal 3Q09 edition is out. This is a quarterly production of California State University Bakersfield School of Business and Public Administration. It reports on the performance of businesses and the behaviour of consumers over the last quarter, compares that performance with the previous quarter and last year, and notes expectations for the coming quarter [...]
I just received the latest edition of the Kern Economic Journal, which is a quarterly production of California State University Bakersfield School of Business and Public Administration. The Journal reports on the performance of businesses and the behaviour of consumers over the last quarter and the last year and notes their expectations for the coming [...]
