AEDC Annual Forecast Luncheon headlined by author, Stephen Dubner

The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation will host “SUPERFREAKONOMICS” author, Stephen Dubner, as guest speaker for the AEDC 2010 Annual Forecast Luncheon on Jan. 27, at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. The event is open to the public and will include a look back at the 2009 Anchorage economy and forecast for 2010 by AEDC.

Bill Popp today presented the new and improved 2010 10-year resource industry jobs projection at the Annual RDC Conference.  Although the projection shows the possibility of up to 20,000 jobs at the peak, all of the projects referred to in the projection have serious hurdles to overcome to reach project "go-ahead."  Some of these include taxation, permitting, public opinion and commodity market conditions. The projection presentation can be found here as well as the projection narrative here.

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