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I’ve posted numerous blogs on what bad things could happen to either the US or local economy, so today I wanted to post about some of the good things that are likely to happen.  While the US still has to … Continue reading →

I am studying long-term trends in Cheatham County’s economy and would love to pick people’s brains for info.  To start off my story, here’s a graph of Cheatham County’s unemployment rate (in blue) alongside Tennesseee’s (red).   You can see … Continue reading →

I spent the morning examining Cheatham’s slowing growth in Excel and R, and came up with a good model that helps illuminate the cause, and perhaps can start the ball rolling for a solution. First, the pretty picture to show … Continue reading →

Intrade is predicting the odds of an Obama presidency at over 75%: The Democrats are forecast to maintain control of the Senate: And the Republicans are currently forecast to hold the House, but the trend is going against them, and … Continue reading →

The graph shows what I call Cheatham’s intrinsic growth rate, which shows how much faster Cheatham is growing than the state as a whole.   (For you FRED types, it’s TNCHEA1POP – TNPOP, with the two census-related peaks at 2000/2010 … Continue reading →

Republicans and Democrats constantly argue about how the other side is going to explode the country’s debt. Let’s examine the historical data and see who’s been telling the truth (or more realistically, who’s lying less). Here is a graph of … Continue reading →

The growth in Cheatham County’s working age population suffered a serious slowdown starting around 2000:   Mostly due to the fact that people stopped moving into the county then:   It appears to be due to the impact fee raising … Continue reading →

A sentence you never hear in America is “I wonder what the smart people think we should do.”  — Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert” People aren’t dumb.  In fact, I find that most people are actually a lot smarter than … Continue reading →

Since the primary election is almost here, I wanted to forgo another question, and instead dig into the candidate’s finances a bit, as they tell us interesting stuff about the candidate that they normally don’t go out of their way … Continue reading →

I still plan to post a few more questions in the weeks ahead (I’m hard at work on the next one), but since the election primary date is rapidly approaching, and honestly since a majority of the candidates are not … Continue reading →