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An Economic Forecast

2025-08-22 Rich Wright The Economy, El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la

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Max Grossman: 318 BANKRUPTCIES IN EL PASO FROM JANUARY TO MARCH, UP 32.5% OVER LAST YEAR

2023-04-20 Max Grossman The Economy, Max Grossman, Slider 2 comments

by Max Grossman According to today’s issue of the Paso del Norte Economic Indicator Review of the Hunt Institute for Global

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“The Economy is Great. The Middle Class is Mad.”

2022-04-28 Rich Wright The Economy 3 comments

From Time.com: Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord

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reddit.com/r/ElPaso

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

Did you know that there’s an El Paso sub-reddit? Here’s a post from reddit.com/r/ElPaso : Is it just me or

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We’re Fourth (From the Bottom)

2022-04-07 Rich Wright The Economy, Slider 2 comments

An alert reader just hipped me to this table from DQYDJ.com showing comparative rankings for metro areas in the U.S.

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The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Inequality, Cost of Living, Economics, Slider, The Economy, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a sobering piece I found on Medium.com: For years, banks and ultra-elites (bankrolled by years of money-printing, corporate socialism,

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” Billionaire Philanthropy is a ‘PR Scam’ “

2021-02-28 elrichiboy Taxes, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

Here’s an interesting take from the CEO who raised his employees base annual pay to $70,000 a year. The CEO

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Home Valuations to Rise in El Paso

2021-02-15 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Economy 4 comments

Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times reports that the median price for a house in El Paso rose in

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