Why So Much?

Materials Prices Surge
History tends to repeat itself, especially when it comes to the economy. In August 2008, the County Road Administration Board (CRAB) of Washington State published a report that could easily characterize the contemporary economic climate as one associated with rising construction input prices.

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Anirban Basu

Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. He is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists in part because of his consulting work on behalf of such clients as prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers, and law firms.

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