Elliott Parker, economics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, said it helps bring attention to the region at a time of growing economic recovery with the likes of Tesla's $5 billion battery gigafactory, the just-announced $1 billion Switch data center, and continued shrinking unemployment a
Coolican then enlists the services of UNR economist Elliott Parker, who says monetary matters were a mess before the steady hand of the Fed came to be in 1913. Its an absurd argument because before the Fed prices were unstable in the short term, and long term there was a long period of deflation,
"In a nutshell, the recovery in the rest of the country is starting to spill over to Nevada, as more people from other states appear to be coming to Las Vegas for meetings and conventions," said Elliott Parker, economist at the University of Nevada, Reno. "They don't seem to be gambling a lot, howev