Economy

With high speed rail facing strong political headwinds in 2011, the Council proposed making early investments in the Bay Area to prepare for bullet...

You might be surprised to learn that the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is doing a lot more than processing 81.6 million monetary notes ever...

Simple policy changes by cities around the Bay Area to ease permitting of secondary units could produce a tsunami of affordable housing. That was t...

Years of planning and hard work across the entire region paid off last Sunday (Feb. 6) when the Super Bowl marked its golden 50th edition with a De...

Even more evidence surfaced this week that solving the Bay Area’s housing shortage and reducing its impact on lower-income households can be acco...

Building a second transbay rail crossing would have enormous economic benefits for the Bay Area, according to a new report the Bay Area Council Eco...

A new report published by Bay Area Council member University of the Pacific points to the continuing emergence of a growing mega region encompassin...

East Bay Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (Richmond) this week (Jan. 28) was appointed chair of a new Select Committee on Regional Planning in the San ...

A robust network of connections among top business executives, innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and investors is a major reason the...

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute today (Jan. 22) launched its new Bay Area Jobs Watch. Using monthly state employment data, Jobs Watch will ...