Virginia has been a leader in economic growth over the past five yearswhile many other states have yet to experience significant growth. So why isit that Virginia does so well...

By Leonard Gilroy and Baruch Feigenbaum Hampton Roads area officials seem bent on delaying or cancelling the proposed public-private partnership (PPP) for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel expansion over concerns...

Virginia’s economic developers expect a wave of manufacturing and logistical investment when the Panama Canal expansion is complete. Opportunities this big, they say, come along only once in a generation....

The revised data can show certain sectors of the economy are doing better – orworse – than initially thought. That’s true for the latest revisions of regional and statewide employment...

(Federally proposed regulations could well undermine the rationale behind funding of what the taxpayers understand is transit. Since many in Virginia are committed to transit, this article is important to...

In his book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman describes the phenomena of “loss aversion” and “reference points.” These deeply embedded cognitive quirks,...

This article was originally published in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s policy blog, the AmericanLegislator (www.americanlegislator.com). A Gallup Poll released in February found that nearly half of small business owners...