Macroeconomic Updates

Here are some of my most recent appearances in the media with links to the original pieces.

Real world economics
UT’s OnCampus video - Meet Mike Brandl, an economist at the McCombs School of Business who has been in love with the study of commerce since the second grade. Mike explains economics as the study of people and society, illustrating fiscal matters accessibly using real life contexts to excite his students.
 

Credit Card Legislation
KEYETV.com - 5/21/09

Austin sales tax revenue takes $2M dip
KXAN.com - 3/13/09

State’s banks a relative oasis in lending crisis
Austin American-Statesman - 2/22/09
“We learned the lessons of history: House prices don’t always go up and up and up,” said Michael Brandl, senior lecturer in economics and finance at the University of Texas. “This is a painful lesson the rest of the nation is now learning, but this is something Texans and Texas bankers have known for over two decades.”

Obama: Stimulus vital to avoid calamity
KXAN - 2/9/09

Texas economy protects banks during recession
The Daily Texan - 2/4/09

“The markets are punishing them for their stupidity, and, unfortunately, the government’s giving the stupid people millions of dollars,” said business lecturer Michael Brandl. “And they can do whatever they want with it. Therein lies the problem, because the banks have just been sitting on it.”

Finanskrisen: Har Alan Greenspan en del af skylden?
Jyskebank.tv - 12/20/08

How to define economic depression
Austin American-Statesman - 11/30/09
In a recession, a much less severe downturn that typically lasts a matter of months, “the unemployment rate increases to perhaps 8 or 9 or even 10 percent,” said Michael Brandl, senior lecturer in economics and finance at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. “An economic depression, on the other hand, is when the economy contracts year after year after year. The unemployment rate in a depression is closer to 20 or 25 percent.”

Houston’s Economy Slows
KUT - (audio interview)

Economy under microscope for voters
News8Austin - 9/29/08
“The markets are not going to calm down until we get a sense of where we are going … good, bad or indifferent,” Brandl said.

Consumer confidence is a priceless commodity
News8Austin - 9/16/08
“We have to rethink the levels of debt we have in this country, both on a corporate level and an individual level,” Brandl said.