Economic Research

The housing market once added considerable sizzle to the Southeastern economy. But the foreclosure crisis has roiled the region and spread its tentacles into many industries and residents' lives. Foreclosures' eventual cost to the region's economy remains to be seen.
Podcast on Home Foreclosures and Resources in South Florida (MP3 9:12)

Many people in developing countries rely on the remittance payments sent back home by family members working abroad. An economic slowdown in the United States has dampened the growth of this payment method. Changing migration patterns, economic developments, and new technologies and policies are affecting how—and how many—remittances are sent abroad.
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Energy firms are busy exploring and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, propelled by high oil prices and gradually dwindling supplies of easily accessible oil and gas deposits around the world. Technological and engineering breakthroughs have enabled these firms to reach depths never before possible, keeping energy production a major economic component of the Gulf Coast.
Podcast on Gulf of Mexico Energy Exploration and Production (MP3 8:14)