Subscribe to Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION September 2014 Issue Sally Ride’s Legacy Lives On in AGOR 28 By Kathleen Gleaves Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research vessel (AGOR 28) began its life as the R/V Sally Rideon August 9th, 2014, with the traditional crack of the champagne bottle. But that’s where its comparison to “traditional” […]
Continue ReadingUS Outlook Report: Updating Our Virtuous Cycle Checklist There she blows! Like Captain Ahab trying to locate the elusive white whale from Moby-Dick, economists have been trying to spot a pro-growth virtuous cycle that would signal to the Fed that it’s okay to normalize interest rates and to others that it’s okay to come out […]
Continue ReadingSubscribe to Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION September 2014 Issue Sally Ride’s Legacy Lives On in AGOR 28 By Kathleen Gleaves Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research vessel (AGOR 28) began its life as the R/V Sally Ride on August 9th, 2014, with the traditional crack of the champagne bottle. But that’s where its comparison to […]
Continue ReadingEconomics Group: Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary U.S. Review Staying the Course – The FOMC announced an end to its most recent round of asset purchases this week. The move comes as economic growth remained strong in the third quarter, advancing at a 3.5 percent annualized rate. – Consumer confidence rose 5.5 points to the […]
Continue ReadingSubscribe to Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION September 2014 Issue The EPA and the Clean Water Act – Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game By Isaak Hurst On August 4, 2014, a tailings dam ruptured at the Mount Polley mine site, sending an initial estimate of 14.5 million cubic meters of mine waste […]
Continue ReadingUS Outlook Report: The Glass Half-Full Economy Coming on the heels of an October FOMC statement that emphasized the glass half-full view of the labor market recovery over the past year, the advance estimate of U.S. GDP for the third quarter provided a similar view of recent U.S. economic growth. Consumer confidence is soaring, despite […]
Continue ReadingInstant Analysis of Today’s October FOMC Statement The FOMC appears to be staying the course with the October FOMC statement. The headlines today and tomorrow morning will be trumpeting the end of QE3, but that was already widely anticipated by the markets and economic analysts. The question is how does the FOMC proceed from here? […]
Continue ReadingSubscribe to Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION September 2014 Issue The EPA and the Clean Water Act – Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game By Isaak Hurst On August 4, 2014, a tailings dam ruptured at the Mount Polley mine site, sending an initial estimate of 14.5 million cubic meters of mine waste […]
Continue ReadingSubscribe to Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION September 2014 Issue California’s Smaller Ports Handling Bulk and Breakbulk By Jim Shaw California’s large ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland are well known for their container handling clout but the Golden State also has a number of smaller ports that are efficient cargo handlers […]
Continue ReadingEconomics Group: Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary U.S. Review More Growth Moving Forward The Chicago Fed National Activity Index and the Leading Economic Index, aggregators of already-released economic data, both sent positive signals for current and future growth. Headline and core CPI advanced just 0.1 percent in September, leaving the year-ago rates unchanged at 1.7 percent. […]
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