Jim Ziliak, quoted in the The New York Times: Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps. Ziliak is the Department Chair; Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics; University Research Professor and Director of the Center for Poverty Research.
Mike Clark spoke to LEX18 about Kentucky's current economic state. Read: "Agencies point to positive economic outlook from Kentucky."
Professor Cynthia Vines, Director of Gatton's Online Certificate in Financial Planning, was featured in WalletHub's "Ask the Experts" piece about personal loans. Read the Q&A here.
Dr. Ken Troske spoke to Kruser from WVLK about the economy and jobs. Listen at omny.fm/shows/newstalk590wvlk/ken-troske
Russell Jame was quoted in the Bloomberg.com article, "BlackRock Borrows Against Diversity."
According to finance adjunct professor Quint Tatro, the semiconductor shortage is rooted in the unusually large demand last year for new personal computers, Smart TVs, laptops, consumer electronics and computer games (all of which need chips) from millions of customers stuck at home during the pandemic. Tatro spoke to Forbes about how investors can benefit from this worldwide shortage.
Professor Meike Eilert recently shared her insights with WalletHub regarding travelers car insurance. Read on WalletHub.com. How important should Travelers Insurance reviews be to potential customers?
Meike Eilert recently contributed to a feature on Allfactors.com in which marketing experts share 2021 industry predictions.
Currency trader and finance lecturer Peter Trager told the Courier-Journal that the GameStop surge was "not surprising because of the 'new guard' of technologically savvy millennial investors and the speed at which information travels." Observing how the GameStop stock traded Thursday — its close was down roughly 44 percent compared with Wednesday's — Trager said he thinks the stock is starting to "run out of steam," particularly as more short sellers are squeezed out.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — One day after buy orders were halted, trading of GameStop Corp. (GME) resumed on Jan. 29, and it was just as volatile as ever, with swings of roughly two hundred points in both directions between the opening and closing bells. The stock price went from a 52-week low of $2.80 per share back in April to a high of $438.00 achieved during trading earlier this week. So how did this happen, virtually overnight?
