In an effort to redeem himself after what many considered a loss at last night’s debates, President Barack Obama gave a spirited speech at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to...
Mark Trahant

I’ve been writing a lot lately about the Era of Contraction—the shrinking of the federal government—and what that policy means to ...

December 24, 2011
Vincent Schilling

I didn’t think much of a phone message I received when checking my voicemails at my office last week. The other voice on the line said something to the extent that they just wanted to verify a recent purchase....

December 22, 2011
David Kimelberg

A buzzword that has been gaining a lot of traction in Indian Country of late is “economic diversification.”  This recent attention makes a lot of sense.  Many of our Indian Nations have achieved significant economic s...

December 16, 2011
The Navajo Nation plans to stimulate the reservation economy by issuing its first bonds...
Julia Good Fox

Since 2009, the relationship between a sustainable economy, the rights of workers, and the purpose of democracy has been highlighted on the international stage....

October 16, 2011
When E.F. Schumacher published Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered during the energy crisis of 1973, it’s a safe bet he didn’t have Indian casinos in mind...
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have seen a $10 million economic turnaround in a year since reorganizing their business operations and cutting expenses, includi...
Mark Trahant

How bad is this economy? Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers wrote in the Financial Times this week that the United States is now halfway to a lost economic decade (similar to Japan’s) and that the number of working Americans has dropped from 63.1 percent to 58.4 percent....

June 13, 2011
The Financial Times (FT) reports on the varying impact of the recession aftermath on Indian economies—specifically nations that rely on casinos as their primary cash stream to manu...

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