Building Permits

Tennessee, Midstate, and Nashville -
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/subdata/bpwebR2.xls

Tennessee Initial and Continued Unemployment Claims

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/claims.html - In the week ending August 15, seasonally adjusted weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance in Tennessee totaled 11,596, down from 12,368 in the previous week.

MTSU's Annual Economic Outlook Conference

Sept. 24, 2009 - (registration form - https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/register.asp?m=203&c=7068 ): Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, Murfreesboro, TN, featuring speakers C. Dowd Ritter (CEO, Regions Financial), Donald Ratajczak, and David Penn. Fee is $60.

Nonfarm Employment Updates

Nashville and Tennessee:
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/updates.html

Economic and Financial Databases

Maintained by Albert E. DePrince, Jr.
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~deprince/databases_beta.html -
(Current as of August 21):
U.S. Economic Activity, Interest Rates, Industrial Sector, International Financial Data, Household Sector, Money and Credit, Tennessee Data

Unemployment

Tennessee Initial and Continued Claims:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/claims.html

Southern Towns: Harley Plant Welcome

(York Daily Record, August 20):
http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_13163100 -
David Penn: "It would be a good fit for Murfreesboro."

Corrected File: Big Picture Economics and Local Real Estate

Corrected pdf (presented by David Penn to Real Estate Investors Group, Nashville) has been uploaded:
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/pdfs/bigpicture.pdf

Tennessee Housing Market

2nd Quarter 2009: http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/housingbrief.html

— A series of quarterly reports on the housing market in Tennessee, supported by a Tennessee Housing Development Agency grant.

U.S. and China: Codependent?

"Powers Need Far More Dialogue" (Tennessean, August 7): Steven Livingston: "The U.S. and China ... complain about each other daily, but ... never seem to be able to break off their relationship."