Course Correction Needed for Colorado’s Economic Outlook
The University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business recently released their 60th annual Business Outlook for 2025, and, despite a moderate outlook in 2025, the report includes some disturbing trends in the Colorado economy. Let’s take a look at some of what’s going wrong. Troubling trends As pointed out by Denver Post business writer Aldo Svaldi, Colorado was the […]
Reducing state income tax a counter to recession
Reducing state income tax a counter to recession Today at 8:30 a.m., the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will release second quarter GDP numbers. If it reports negative economic growth as economists expect, then a technical recession has already begun in the United States. Colorado can insulate itself by reducing the state income tax. Understanding why […]
Interview with Paul Prentice: Economic Impact COVID-19 Policies in Colorado
Paul Prentice, economist and Independence Institute senior fellow, sits down with Jon Caldara to discuss his study Unequal Opportunities, Unequal Outcomes: The COVID-19 Recession in Colorado. The study explores Colorado’s policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic and social consequences of those policies for various populations across the state. I don’t know […]
2015 Thumbnail Guide to Colorado’s Spending Problem
IB-D-2015 (July 2015) Author: Linda Gorman PDF of full Issue Backgrounder Introduction: Colorado state government has a spending problem. Between FY 1999-00 and FY 2013-14, its inflation-adjusted expenditures rose by 38 percent.1 Its inflation-adjusted revenues rose by just 34 percent. Although Colorado’s working age population grew over the period, its private sector employment stagnated.
Spending Revolt Bus Tour – Denver
The Independence Institute will be participating in the Spending Revolt National Bus Tour and will tentatively be making its first stop in Colorado on Thursday, August 12 in Grand Junction. The red and blue emblazoned Spending Revolt Bus is bringing speakers, events, and a mobile activist hub to hundreds of locations nationwide to demonstrate how the […]
Spending Revolt Bus Tour – Grand Junction, Dillon, and Idaho Springs
The Independence Institute will be participating in the Spending Revolt National Bus Tour and will tentatively be making its first stop in Colorado on Thursday, August 12 in Grand Junction. The red and blue emblazoned Spending Revolt Bus is bringing speakers, events, and a mobile activist hub to hundreds of locations nationwide to demonstrate how the […]
Spending Revolt Bus Tour – Colorado Springs
The Independence Institute will be participating in the Spending Revolt National Bus Tour and will tentatively be making its first stop in Colorado on Thursday, August 12 in Grand Junction. The red and blue emblazoned Spending Revolt Bus is bringing speakers, events, and a mobile activist hub to hundreds of locations nationwide to demonstrate how the […]
TABOR Amendment has Saved Colorado
Do we really want to follow California’s disastrous abandonment of fiscal discipline?
PERA Falls Off A Cliff
The Public Employees Retirement System (PERA) in Colorado is experiencing a funding crisis. The recent collapse of financial markets has resulted in a significant decrease in the value of the PERA portfolio. But the funding crisis in PERA is not just the result of problems in financial markets.
Defenders of Fuzzy Math Do Students a Disservice
The longer a student stays in the Colorado public school system, the less likely he is to be proficient in math.
