Economy

...The Economic Freedom of North America 2018 outlines Hawaii's statistical paradox....

...Following two years of decline, the pace of building in Hawaii has stabilized. The value of construction permits is posting healthy gains across all sub-sectors this year....

...Retail Sales Workers topped the list at 42,445 workers in 2016, which accounted for 5.9 percent of Hawaii’s civilian workforce; followed by Food and Beverage Serving Workers at 40,775, 5.7 percent ... Construction Trade Workers ranked third place 34,137, 4.8 percent....

...Global tourism continues to power forward, and there remains a healthy pipeline of construction work. And even with the recent labor market weakness, Hawaii continues to enjoy its lowest unemployment in many years....

...Hawaii has the most expensive real estate in the country. However, it also has one of the most affluent populations in the country....

...Hawaii’s economic growth during the first quarter of 2018 was at 1 percent and the Honolulu consumer inflation was at 1.6 percent for the first half of 2018. Both numbers came out much lower than projected....

...The report projects that Hawaii’s economy, measured by real gross domestic product (GDP), will grow at 1.7 percent per year between 2016 and 2045....

...What do volcanoes, trade wars, and housing bubbles have to do with each other? These are just a few of the economic topics with which many of Hawaii's policymakers are woefully unfamiliar....

...The 2018 Manufacturing & Logistics Report Card shows how each state ranks among its peers in several categories that are of particular interest to site selection experts for the manufacturing and logistics industries....

...how to ease barriers to public-private partnerships in the state, and the benefits that could result if done right....

...Hawaii does not perform well on the annual EFNA Index, ranking 45th out of the 50 states in terms of economic freedom....

...2018’s Best & Worst State Economies....

...The value of Google Search and AdWords for businesses is the profit they receive from clicks on search results and ads minus their cost of advertising, estimated as $8 profit for every $1 spent....

...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....

...lowest unemployment AND lowest starting salaries....

...Keli'i Akina and Professor Schoolland demonstrate how free market thinking is good for the economy and our personal lives....

...America’s transformation is more than skin-deep — it’s economic, too....

...Tourism has surged again in the first part of 2018, extending one of the longest periods of sustained visitor growth. Construction, while volatile month to month, also remains on a high plateau....

...Hawaii lost 1.9 percent of construction jobs between February and March....

....Grassroot president says high taxes, regulations discourage higher-paying jobs....

...The housing-market collapse and following financial crisis reminded Americans of our obsession with debt and the dangers of quick access to finances for under-informed consumers....

...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....

...José Torra, an economist and research director for Caminos de la Libertad in Mexico City....

...$16.78 Billion in Visitor Spending; $1.96 Billion in Generated Tax Revenue; 9.38 Million Visitor Arrivals; 12.23 Million Air Seats Serving Hawai‘i; 204,000 Jobs Supported Statewide....

...comparing the economic impact of foreign-born populations on the 50 states and the District of Columbia...

...Hawaii was ranked third in the U.S. based upon total premium, fourth in the U.S. for largest captive domiciles and eleventh in the world based on total number of active captive licenses....

...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....

...Hawaii's extremely modest creep up the ladder of economic freedom....

The Hawaii Defense Economy project is focused on enhancing understanding of the economic impact of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracts and grants....

"...air seats will increase by 8.5 percent during the first three quarters of 2018....”

...“Congress never intended to give one individual the power to unilaterally seize enormous swathes of our nation’s public lands…."

... Shortage of Affordable housing:  Its not the demand, its the supply ....

...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....

...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....

...After two years of consecutive growth above 2 percent, Hawaii’s economy grew by 0.9 percent during the first quarter of 2017....

...lower construction related cargo to Hawaii as the boom of high-rise condominium developments in Honolulu has begun to ebb....

...48th – Percentage of Jobs in High-Tech Industries....

...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....

...boom over, Honolulu down 300 jobs....

Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....

...Hawaii's elected officials have been pursuing the same economic policies which led Puerto Rico, Detroit and Greece to become economic basket cases....

We're the Hawaii expats....

...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....

The most recent version of Rich States, Poor States has been released, and once again, Hawaii ends up on the wrong end of that title....

...after the Legislature finishes raising taxes, Hawaii will be back up to 50th....

Affordable housing, homelessness, the high cost of living, and unfunded state worker liabilities. These are just a few of the serious problems facing Hawaii's economy....

"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."

...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....

...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....