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On the Record: A Conversation with Fred P. Hochberg - Strains of Globalization Buffet Trade, Financing of Export-Import Bank
Fred P. Hochberg just concluded an eight-year tenure as the chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He discussed the bank and the outlook for trade during an appearance at the Houston Branch as part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas? Global Perspectives speakers? series.
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On the record: Hispanic workforce faces smaller but persistent education, wage gaps
Marie T. Mora, a past president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists, is an expert on labor-market issues, particularly along the U.S.?Mexico border. She is coauthor with Alberto Dvila of the forthcoming book Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s and is a professor of economics and Vice Provost Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas?Pan American in Edinburg.
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On the record: Greece's fiscal woes among issues hobbling euro zone rebound
While the U.S. has emerged from the global economic downturn, the path for the euro zone has proven bumpier. Senior economist Mark A. Wynne, vice president and director of the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, explores the reasons and outlook.
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On the Record: A Conversation with Bill Gilmer - Energy Woes to Weigh on Houston Recovery, Local Economist Says
Bill Gilmer, director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business, assesses the effect of the oil industry on the Houston economy and provides an outlook for 2021.
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On the record: immigrant legalization offers range of economic gains, some fiscal costs
Pia Orrenius is a vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She has written extensively on the economic effects of immigration and coauthored the book Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization. She discusses the Obama administration?s recently announced plans to legalize the status of several million unauthorized immigrants.
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Dallas Booms Through Texas Oil Bust
The Dallas metropolitan division?s economy, buttressed by business relocations and consolidations, has expanded steadily since 2010, following the Great Recession. Growth sectors, which included business and financial services, defense and security, and transportation, powered Dallas and helped it pace the Texas economy after the energy price collapse.
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On the Record: A Conversation with Fang Yang - Policy Changes Could Boost Women’s Participation in U.S. Workforce
Fang Yang, associate professor of economics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, discusses the labor market impacts of tax policy, an evolving U.S. workforce, the effects of gender and an aging population.
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Mexico recovering from pandemic slowdown; structural issues persist
Daniel Chiquiar, professor of economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico) and former chief economist of Mexico’s central bank, Banco de México, discusses the country’s recent economic performance and the challenges it faces in 2023.