Economist Mike Walden launches daily podcast
Looking for the latest scoop on gas prices, mortgage rates, job forecasts or tax trends? N.C. State University's Mike Walden has launched a new "Economic Perspective" Web site to bring daily analysis and insight on these and other economic issues straight to people's desktops.
Walden's new site, at http://waldenradio.ncsu.edu, approaches the national economic headlines from a North Carolina angle. The site incorporates text transcriptions and audio files based on his long-running 1- to 2-minute "Economic Perspective" radio shows, which are made available Monday to Friday to radio stations across the state.
With the enhanced Web site, North Carolinians can access the segments whenever they want, as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection. The site offers visitors the chance to get the information through a text transcript or an audio file. The site also features a podcast, allowing listeners to subscribe and download the shows from the Web to their computers, iPods or other mp3 players.
Walden, widely known for his ability to relate larger economic trends to individual consumers, is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a North Carolina Cooperative Extension specialist.
"Economic Perspective" is designed to help meet one of Extension's top 15 educational goals: helping individuals, families and young people learn how to best manage their finances.
- Dee Shore
Walden's new site, at http://waldenradio.ncsu.edu, approaches the national economic headlines from a North Carolina angle. The site incorporates text transcriptions and audio files based on his long-running 1- to 2-minute "Economic Perspective" radio shows, which are made available Monday to Friday to radio stations across the state.
With the enhanced Web site, North Carolinians can access the segments whenever they want, as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection. The site offers visitors the chance to get the information through a text transcript or an audio file. The site also features a podcast, allowing listeners to subscribe and download the shows from the Web to their computers, iPods or other mp3 players.
Walden, widely known for his ability to relate larger economic trends to individual consumers, is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a North Carolina Cooperative Extension specialist.
"Economic Perspective" is designed to help meet one of Extension's top 15 educational goals: helping individuals, families and young people learn how to best manage their finances.
- Dee Shore