All Briefs
2021
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Labor Shortages Give Rise to Rapid Wage Growth
October 29 | Michael Papadopoulos, Former Associate Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Employment Cost Index report for the 3rd Quarter 2021
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Q3 2021 GDP Growth Slows on Delta Impact
October 28 | Erik Lundh, Senior Economist, Global, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Comment on US GDP report for Q3 2021 – Erik Lundh, Principal Economist, The Conference Board
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Environmental Shareholder Proposals Increasingly Focus on Climate, Compromise Harder to Reach
October 22 | Merel Spierings, Former Senior Researcher, ESG Center, The Conference Board | Comments (0)As we’re approaching the 26th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, we’ve taken a closer look at climate and other environmental shareholder proposals in 2021 – and what we might expect next year.
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September retail sales continued to rise as Delta wave ebbs
October 15 | Erik Lundh, Senior Economist, Global, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Retail spending in September rose $4.6 billion to $625.4 billion for the month – up 0.7 percent from the previous month and up 13.9 percent from a year earlier. These improvements were not merely a function of rising prices: adjusted for inflation, sales were up 0.3 percent month-over-month and 8.1 percent year-over-year. As the severity of the Delta wave continues to abate, these data suggest that American consumers still have an appetite to spend as we enter the last quarter of the year.
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Diversity and Disclosure Drive Shareholders’ Human Capital Management Agenda
October 08 | Merel Spierings, Former Senior Researcher, ESG Center, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The success of human capital management (HCM) proposals helped drive the unprecedented level of support for “E&S” shareholder proposals in the 2021 proxy season. This blog focuses on what we saw in HCM proposals in 2021 and what to expect this autumn and next year.
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Lackluster job growth amid Delta and labor shortages
October 08 | Frank Steemers, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Commentary on today’s U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Report
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Resilient August Income & Spending Growth Point to Strong Close to 2021
October 01 | Erik Lundh, Senior Economist, Global, The Conference Board | Comments (0)August Personal Income & Outlays data, released this morning, show an economy that continues to grow despite the impact of the Delta variant.
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What If? The Government Shuts Down and/or We Hit the Debt Ceiling
October 01 | Dana M. Peterson, Chief Economist and Leader, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center, The Conference Board | Joseph J. Minarik, Former Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED) | Erik Lundh, Senior Economist, Global, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The US Congress is currently locked in discussions on continuing to fund Federal government operations and whether to either raise or suspend the debt ceiling. We have been here before, and it has always worked out—with more or less pain along the way. Indeed, Congress has passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the Federal government through December 3, 2021. What if come December, we find ourselves on the brink once again? Also, what happens if we hit the public debt ceiling?
