Bill Conerly
Affiliation: Cascade Policy Institute
Dr. Bill Conerly is the consultant who connects the dots between the economy and business decisions. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University and was formerly Senior Vice President at First Interstate Bank.
Dr. Conerly is author of Businomics: From the Headlines to Your Bottomline—How to Profit in Any Economic Cycle (http://www.businomics.com), which provides business leaders with a framework for understanding current economic news. He is co-author of Thinking Economics, a multi-media high school economics curriculum used in 24 states.
Dr. Conerly has been interviewed on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN and local television and radio stations across the country. He has been quoted in ...More the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, and USA Today.
Dr. Conerly is chairman of the board of Cascade Policy Institute, a member of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s Council of Economic Advisors, and a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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Bill Conerly's Latest Articles | 31
Housing Sales Not So Bad, But Journalism is Lousy
Once again let me rant about The Wall Street Journal’s headline: New Home Sales Dropped: Sales of newly built homes in the U.S. fell in June to the lowest... Read »
A Construction Rebound is Coming
A construction rebound is coming, but it will be a soft rebound, leading to a mild recovery in wood products demand. Although somewhat better times are coming, businesses... Read »
Is the Facebook (FB) IPO a Flop?
Is the Facebook (FB) IPO a flop? Not on your life. It’s a sign that Silicon Valley has gotten as smart about finance as it has been about technology. I like it. The... Read »
The Future of Telecom: An Economic Perspective
If Adam Smith had observed the modern telecom industry, he might have added some interesting insights. The father of modern economics noted that division of labor... Read »
The Economic Recovery—For Real Estate Too?
The economy is looking better, with growth in employment, retail spending, and manufacturing production. Will the economic recovery spread to real estate? Some... Read »
Exports: Risk of Recession Rising
Maybe I’m a little jumpy, having just created a series of videos about business planning with a risk of recession. Today’s foreign trade data worry me. If the... Read »
An Economic Forecast for the Timber Industry, 2012-2013
Wood products demand is far more sensitive to the economy than demand for almost any other product. The outlook for the next two years is moderately positive, at... Read »
Real Estate Outlook 2012-2013
Real estate markets are unbalanced in most parts of the country: vacancy is too high, but construction is too low. That sounds contradictory, because construction... Read »
Business Sensitivity to the Economy and Corporate Hubris
Fortune has a good article profiling the agricultural processor Cargill. I can’t help but to note the hubris Logo_cargill_reg in vice-chairman Paul Conway’s... Read »
Banks More Willing to Lend
The latest data from the Federal Reserve Survey of Senior Loan Officers show that banks continue to loosen their credit standards and narrow their interest rate... Read »
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