Sean Saldaña
Associate Producer and Reporter at Texas Standard
Associate Producer and Reporter at KUT-FM (Austin, TX)
Reporter at Austin Monitor
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
If you want to understand how researchers and policymakers are thinking about the economy, you’d want to look at things like price indices, GDP figures and monthly jobs reports. You would also want to look at consumer spending habits, which in many ways reflect how everyday people are thinking about their own economic futures. If people are optimistic, they may buy more. If they’re worried, they may buy less. But how do we make sense of consumer spending when there’s no one clear trend?
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2 weeks ago |
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
In February, more than a thousand people associated with Texas Craft Brewers Guild met up in Austin to drink beer, hand out awards, and talk about a growing issue in their industry: Many breweries are closing their doors. For the past few decades, the world of craft beer has boomed, but last year, for the first time since 2005, more breweries shut down than opened in the United States – that’s according to the Brewers Association.
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1 month ago |
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña
Since last summer, three separate organizations have announced plans to open stock exchanges in Dallas. At first, there was the Texas Stock Exchange, which plans to open up early next year. The second was the New York Stock Exchange, which moved its Chicago branch to the Lone Star State and made international headlines last week when it opened its doors and listed Trump Media and Technology Group as its first stock.
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1 month ago |
victoriaadvocate.com | Sean Saldaña
Right now, the median home sale price in Texas is about $328,000. It sounds like a lot, but not only is that about $70,000 less than the national average, it’s also a figure that’s been ticking down in recent years as home sales have slowed down and units have been sitting on the market for longer. In fact, the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University says that “conditions have shifted in favor of homebuyers” as what has historically been a spring homebuying season gets underway.
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1 month ago |
texasstandard.org | Sean Saldaña
In early April, the Moontower Comedy Festival makes its return to Texas. For a little over a week, more than 150 comedians will perform in venues across Austin, including several headline acts like Aziz Ansari, Pete Holmes, Janelle James, Josh Johnson and Aparna Nancherla.
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