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Most of Bill’s current writings appear on Forbes.com where he is a Senior Contributor.

14 Jul 2020

Writing About Finance and Economics

Two computer software engineers asked me for advice about technical writing. Explaining economics and finance shares some of the challenges of technical writing, so I pulled together some notes. General Writing Tips Practice. Spending 20 …

13 Dec 2019

Leadership in Today’s Tight Labor Market

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With low unemployment rates and very small growth of the working-age population in the United States, businesses are struggling with employee retention and recruiting. I’ve been studying the issue since I looked at the demographic …

19 Nov 2019

Recession 101: What Business Leaders Need to Know about Economic Downturns

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Business leaders are worried about recession. Their responsibility, however, is not just to survive a downturn, but to capitalize on good times before the recession comes. I’ve held several workshops for company executives and owners …

3 Jul 2019

Business Planning With Austrian Economics

Business Strategy

The Austrian school of economics is an approach to the subject with some distinctive characteristics that help business leaders find profit opportunities. Like much of economics, professors tend to be focused either on pure theory …

17 Apr 2018

Jordan Peterson’s Lesson for Business Leaders

Many people are reading my article over at Forbes.com, Jordan Peterson’s Lessons for Business Leaders: You Need Both Liberals and Conservatives. Quick summary: The labels liberal and conservative refer not just to Democrats and Republicans, …

8 Mar 2017

What If Trump’s and Clinton’s Genders Were Reversed: Who Would Have Won the Debates?

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That's the intriguing question asked by a New York University team. Their project, called Her Opponent, was to stage a debate using the words and gestures of the candidates, but portrayed by people of opposite sexes.

25 Feb 2017

Kenneth Arrow

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This obituary of Kenneth Arrow is worth reading by anyone interested in economics or ideas in general. Much of mathematical economics promises far more than it delivers, but Arrow's work has proved to be of enduring value.

23 Jan 2017

NFDA PacWest Joint Meeting 2017 03

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Dr. Bill Conerly will present the economic outlook to the Joint Conference of National Fastener Distributors Association and Pacific-West Fastener Association in Long Beach, California on March 15-18, 2017.

19 Jan 2017

Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County Annual Meeting 2017

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Dr. Bill Conerly will present his economic forecast at the annual meeting of the Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County on March 1, 2017.

22 Dec 2016

Progress In The World Continues: A Juggling Example

Penn Jillette talks about the tech revolution in his Reason Magazine interview: I was one of the people talking at [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] in the early '90s about how computers were going to …

15 Dec 2016

What State Government Can Do About Economic Uncertainty

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I testified before the Oregon legislature regarding uncertainty about the economy and state revenue forecast. The entire session, including two great fellow economists, Tim Duy and Andrew Dyke, can be seen here. Or watch just …

28 Nov 2016

Brexit and Donald Trump

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One of the best explanations of free-trade motivations for Brexit is in this Reason interview with Daniel Hannan. This Englishman said, “Your founders had someone very like Donald Trump in mind when they designed all …