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Life Sciences and Greater Boston Real Estate:
Can the Sizzle Continue?
by Michelle Kennedy
The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy June report on the “Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the United States” ranked Greater Boston and San Francisco as the top two biotechnology research and development centers in the country. Criteria included number of biotech startups, value of R&D alliances, NIH funding, and venture capital funding. The report concluded that Boston excels in the life science industry because of two key ingredients: a strong research capability, and the ability to translate that research into commercial activity...
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July Fed Interest Rate Survey Results
Respondents see stable rates
Since May 2000, to prevent consumer demand from faltering and to stimulate business spending, Federal Reserve policy makers cut the target overnight bank-lending rate eleven times through December 2001. During that period they reduced it by 4.75 percent from 6.5 percent to a 41-year low of 1.75 percent. So far during 2002, the rates have been steady. In our survey last month we asked, based on your sense of national economic trends, what you thought the Fed will do about interest rates...
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The National Economic Recovery:
Is it real?
by Robert Kasvinsky
Is there any reliable source to help us get a sense of what is going on to determine whether the national economic recovery is real, is just staggering, or is sputtering and likely to fizzle? Conflicting information on the direction and pace the economy is moving yields fragile and skittery decision-making. Current technology means instant availability of data and revisions, analyses and interpretations. With so many conflicting signals, the best course might simply be to opt out and say “Beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here...
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November Survey Question
What is the office availability situation in single-tenant corporate-owned facilities?
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