2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 31 Oct 2007 22:11:51 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Maryland's BRAC "Boom"
 
BRAC's big boom is likely oversold

Opinion by Jay Hancock
Baltimore Sun (MD)
October 31, 2007

I have heard it from merchants. I've heard it from car dealers, Realtors and bankers. Sure, Maryland's economy is slowing, they concede. Homes are sitting empty. Store sales are sinking. Loans are going bust.

But the thousands of jobs that the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission is shifting here will not only keep Maryland out of trouble but ensure decent growth even if the country goes into recession.

If only it were so.

Base realignment will limit any pain, true. But the defense jobs moving here are a smaller part of the economy than many believe, and their potential effects have been widely exaggerated.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.hancock31oct31,0,6753682.column?coll=bal_business_util

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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