Paul Isely

Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce holds annual economic forecast

Gallup survey indicates labor union favorability reached highest level since 1965. Gallup finds “the low unemployment rate that developed during the pandemic altered the balance of power between employers and employees.” Dr. Paul Isely, Associate Dean in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University disagrees with that conclusion.

Raising interest rates high and fast enough to quell inflation, without tightening credit so much that it throttles the economy and causes a recession.

West Michigan economics expert explains short and long-term impacts.

While 2020 came with record levels of unemployment and businesses closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, local economists are predicting that West…

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on…

There are three pieces of economic data that could tell us how reopening the Michigan economy could play out. WGVU spoke with Paul Isely, Associate Dean…

In response to the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate passed a mammoth $2.2 trillion economic rescue package aiding…

Numbers from China, South Korea, Japan and Washington state are being used to model the economic change West Michigan will likely experience from the…

The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 Thursday as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened. The…