The Census Bureau’s recent June 2025 official U.S. population estimates indicate strength for the economy. This strength will accrue via various channels described in this essay. America is larger than previously understood. The estimated number of Americans as of July 1, 2023 rose by 1.9 million persons, and the previously estimated 2023 U.S. population growth… Read more
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California Lutheran University economists Matthew Fienup and Dan Hamilton have been named recipients of a 2024 Crystal Ball Award for the Fannie Mae Home Price Expectations Survey (formerly the Zillow and Case-Shiller Home Price Expectations Surveys). The two economists received the prestigious national award for the fourth time in six years.
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California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) has joined the select group of contributors to The Wall Street Journal’s Economic Forecasting Survey.
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The Center for Economic Research & Forecasting, along with research partners at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, released a new report which provides a factual account of the large and growing economic contribution of Latinos living in the United States.
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California’s first formal, centralized market for individual landowners to buy and sell groundwater has been launched on the Oxnard Plain, and the United States Department of Agriculture has awarded a $1.9 million grant to expand the pilot project later this year.
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The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) awarded second place in its annual most-accurate-forecast competition to two California Lutheran University economists.
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