"With the economy in a persistent state of below-trend growth, the Fed has cover" to cut interest rates, DeKaser says.
Common sense beat delicate special interests, a welcome trend in state government.
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The warming trend threatens a state that, in some places, is literally built on ice.
And this is just the peak of what has been a long-term trend in reduced state support for higher education.
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This trend spread to state and local employees so that today, it represents the only segment of our economy where unions are still growing.
Lately, the trend is towards eliminating state estate taxes, or at least lessening the tax bite by increasing the amount exempt from the tax.
State data are patchier, but the trend appears to be sharply upward.
The job fairs noted above are organized by municipalities but involve private and state-owned enterprises, solidifying a trend that began several years ago.
So it should come as no surprise that gargantuan state enterprises are taking advantage of this regressive trend to obtain for themselves the lucrative opportunities that have been created by smaller companies.
President Obama reversed the trend of Republican dominance in the state in 2008, defeating John McCain by about 14, 000 votes out of 4.3 million cast, making it the 2nd closest race of the election (behind Missouri).
More depressing for the purists is that I only see four ways to reverse the trend: (1) State legislative subsidies to keep a state-supported school within the existing conference due to other state schools they play and revenue retention from those games (2) private business subsidies, (3) donations from the general public and high net worth individuals, or (4) a conscious decision to deemphasize sports.
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The trend seems to be most acute at state schools, where, in addition to budget conscious consumers cutting back on sports tickets, tight public budgets are squeezing revenues.
This trend has been accentuated by the current economic state of the United Kingdom and public-sector spending cuts.
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Falling state aid and dwindling local property taxes have only reinforced the trend.
If North Carolina, Louisiana, and Nebraska are successful in eliminating state income taxes, they could provide the momentum for a nationwide trend.
Her opponents worry that Ms Rousseff would continue a trend in Lula's second term to expand the state, and that she might prove to be a less pragmatic leftist than he was.
But it may also herald the re-emergence, after a decades-long trend among Israel's neighbours to accommodate the Jewish state, of a broad rejectionist front, this time inspired by pan-Islamist feeling rather than the pan-Arab nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s.
He says this trend is likely to continue, at least for the prestigious state institutions that have suffered such serious funding cuts, unless urgent action is taken.
But those who hope it is the start of a positive trend can point to a recent change in corporate law in the state of Delaware, which took effect on August 1st, to make it easier to introduce such reimbursement bylaws.
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The threat of cyber leaks or espionage (industrial, state-sponsored or just malicious) is a powerful accelerant to an established underlying trend.
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There are plenty of learned observers who laud this trend, ranging from former Secretary of Defense William Perry to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
And the trend is worrying policy-makers such as Aline Wong, the country's senior minister of state for health.
In recent years, state courts have rejected or overturned 40% of private-developer condemnations--hardly enough, but the trend line is positive.
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