by Edward Lopez | Jun 24, 2022 | News, The Director's Blog
Want to Understand the Inflation Problem? Look to Harvey Road, Not Pennsylvania Avenue By Peter T. Calcagno and Edward J. Lopez As news headlines have reported, the US economy today suffers its worst inflation in two generations. Not coincidentally, US public debt is...
by Edward Lopez | Feb 21, 2022 | Events, News, Research, The Director's Blog
Last weekend, the Center hosted our 5th annual Scaled-Up Seminar in Asheville. Scaled-Up Seminar gathers economics researchers from within driving distance of WCU to present current research and provide mutual feedback. This year, 27 researchers from 20 different...
by Edward Lopez | Feb 2, 2022 | News, The Director's Blog
Is now a good time to be optimistic? Amidst economic malaise, political turmoil, and public health disasters, Americans on average have become more pessimistic about the future. Recent Gallup polls, for example, show that U.S. adults have in recent weeks become more...
by Edward Lopez | Sep 5, 2021 | News, Research, The Director's Blog
To be included in today’s digital world, all North Carolinians need access to reliable, high-speed broadband. Yet, today nearly 472,000 in our state – primarily in rural communities – remain without broadband access, limiting their options to work, learn, pray,...
by Edward Lopez | Jul 21, 2021 | News, Research, The Director's Blog
Check out our new annual report, just released today! In the summer of 2020, as we sat down amidst those uncertain times to hash out plans for the 2020-21 academic year, I wrote the following vision statement for the Center: We produce high-impact research in three...
by Edward Lopez | Jun 8, 2021 | News, The Director's Blog
As summer settles in, we invite you to check out the recap (below) and video of our May 19 event, “Helping the Community Helps Your Campus: New and Replicable Ways Two University Centers are Impacting Their Communities.” Craig Richardson and I are...
