Jon Haveman

Economist Jon Haveman has accepted our invitation to be our speaker at our Nov 13 SIRS meeting on the timely topic of our national debt.

Jon Haveman is widely considered to be one of California’s leading experts on the economics of seaports, goods movement, and international trade policy. He is also an expert in regional economies and local economic development. Dr. Haveman was the Chief Economist at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a founding principal at Beacon Economics, and the Director of the Economy Program at the Public Policy Institute of California. He has been a Senior Economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and an Economist with the Federal Trade Commission,

Horace Hines

Horace talked about “Geology from the Pacific to the Rockies”.  This was a description of how the major geologic formations from the Pacific Ocean to the Rockies were formed.  Have you ever wondered why there is a coastal range followed by the great valley and then the Sierras?  Why is the decent from the Sierra summit down to Reno steeper than the rise from the Sacramento Valley to the summit? How were the rounded Sierra granite mountain tops (like Half Dome) formed?  What created the Great Basin where rivers go to die?  What forces created the Rockies?

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