From The Washington Business Journal: Greater Washington companies may be sitting on tens of billions in cash — but much of it is held overseas to avoid the tax consequences of bringing it back stateside. Publicly traded companies in the D.C. area are sitting on about $160 billion in cash, according to their Securities and…
Listen to Dr. Fuller as he discusses the Washington region’s declining economic brand with Steve Burns of WMAL on July 14, 2017: Note to Chrome web browser users: Audio will not play in some versions of Chrome. We are working on a fix. To listen, please use another browser. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
From Federal News Radio: The D.C. region’s economic growth is slowing down, but not reversing just yet, according to a report by George Mason University’s Stephen S. Fuller Institute. To get a grip on what’s going on and how to fix it, What’s Working in Washington sat down with Andy Medici, business reporter for the Washington Business Journal. “If…
From The Washington Business Journal: If economic growth were a foot race, Greater Washington would clearly be getting winded — its gross regional product has grown less than any of the top 15 metro areas since 2010. That puts the region well below Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston and Dallas, according to the most recent study…
From The Washington Post: By Jonathan Aberman Economic growth doesn’t just happen; it results from successful strategy and execution. A growing number of people in greater Washington believe that future economic growth will come from overseas – if the right choices are made. From 1980 until now, economic growth in our region has been tightly tied to increases in federal spending, especially in federal government procurement. D.C. really has been a…
