If you have wondered what the consequences might be of the large numbers of closed businesses and vacant lots throughout Spokane and around the United States, increasing unemployment is an obviou...
Aware from friends and from first hand experience about the ongoing nature of harassment by police and private security forces on the streets of Spokane, I am reprinting here this piece I publish...
https://spokaneeconomicindicators.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes/
As should be well known to every human being who has lived since man’s ancestors first stood up and grabbed a club in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey, thousands of politicians, econo...
https://spokaneeconomicindicators.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/payday-loans-pawn-shops-and-key-light/
Spokane has a 9.1 percent unemployment rate, the national average. While this is a 0.6 percent improvement from April 2010 to April 2011 for Spokane, it still represents 21,500 people out of a ...
This is a pretty standard liberal, Democratic party, ruling elite analysis. It provides no alternative model, no escape from growth, empire, and elite rule. It presumes that the solution fo...
https://spokaneeconomicindicators.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/robert-reich-5-points-in-2-minutes/
Whose town? Their town. Wells Fargo, Chase, and Washington Trust Bank dominate the Spokane skyline. (Click photo to enlarge) Photo by: David Brookbank Banks bearing significant responsi...
In May 2011, the US Department of Labor reported 54,000 jobs were created nationwide. Let’s create some local and regional context for these 54,000 jobs. The May jobs number represents an ave...