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• Global Commerce spring 2008 issue ("State Trade with Africa: Recent Growth") is online. Steven Livingston writes: "The fourth quarter was the best of 2007 for state exporters but substantially behind the U.S."


• Gas Prices Killing Confidence (Saturday Independent, 5-13-08): "The high gas prices will probably have the result of lowering economic growth by one percent, said David Penn, director of the Business & Economic Research Center at MTSU."
  
  
• Nashville Commuters Use Carpools, Buses to Save on Fuel Costs (Tennessean, 5-11-08): According to BERC director David Penn, "Fuel prices are going to stay high for the foreseeable future.... It's a pretty good bet it will be up for the next 5 years."
  
  
• Health Industry Drives Job Growth (Tennessean, 5-05-08): "Even with the drop-off in hiring, health care 'is still providing quite a lot of stability,' said David Penn, an economist at Middle Tennessee State University who tracks the job market and other local economic indicators."
  
  
• Economic indicators for the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro MSA (4/29/08)
  
  
• Japan to Honor Nashville Man for Fostering Business Ties (Tennessean, 4-29-08): "'Japanese foreign investments have totally transformed' Tennessee's economy, said Steven Livingston, a professor and senior research associate in Middle Tennessee State University's Business and Economic Research Center."
  
  
• Economic Update: According to BERC director David Penn, "March economic indicators for the Nashville metropolitan area show modest nonfarm employment growth, even though housing construction is plummeting and the unemployment rate is on the rise...."
  

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