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Statewide Economic Performance: Consumers Lead Strong Bounce Back By Patrick M. Barkey
The Performance of the BBER Forecast: Forecast Relatively Accurate Despite Economic Shocks By Derek Sheehan
Montana's Regions and Cities: Pre-COVID Growth Patterns Reemerge By Patrick M. Barkey
State Revenue Report: Montana Tax Revenue Very Strong By Terry Johnson
Major Economic Events of 2021: Montana Bounces Back By Patrick M. Barkey

Here are the top 10 predictions for the U.S. and global economies courtesy of our friends at IHS Markit:

Farming and Ranching - A Year of Volatile Commodity Prices and Near-Record Stimulus Payments Forest Products - Montana Wood Products in the Time of COVID-19 Energy - The COVID-19 Recession Impacts Prices Manufacturing - Continued Growth Is Interrupted by the Pandemic Travel, Tourism and Recreation - Crowds Flock To Montana During COVID Summer Transportation and Logistics - 2020 Was a Year of Disruption Health Care - COVID-19 Alters Health Care Landscape Technology and Innovation - Remote Work, Zoom Towns and a Spotlight on Biotech Real Estate and Construction - The Seller''s Market Continues

The unprecedented declines in economic activity due to the pandemic have not spared Montana.

As states reopen their businesses, what does the future hold for jobs and the economy?

Financial markets have been interrupted and workers are being furloughed. When can we expect a recession?

of last year was how much longer could the U.S. economy continue to ride high as the rest of the world seemed to be faltering? Just a few short months ago, we thought the answer was clear ? not much longer. But much has changed in just a few months. Here are the top 10 predictions for the U.S. and global economies for 2020 courtesy of our friends at IHS Markit.

The U.S. economy continues to move into positive territory and the unemployment rate is at a near historic low. But is a recession coming in 2019?

Q&A with Montana''s leading economists and industry experts on economic issues facing Montana.

Recent economic statistics demonstrate Ravalli County''s economy is emerging from the downturn experienced in the Great Recession.

The U.S. economy is now in the fourth year of an exceedingly slow recovery that began from a cyclic trough in the second quarter of 2009. The recovery is under way in manufacturing. The comeback of durable goods production accounted for most of the growth. This report was prepared by Montana State University Montana Manufacturing Extension Center and the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research and examines trends in Montana manufacturing.

The first decade of the Twenty-first Century proved tumultuous for the West's forest products industry. A strong economy, low interest rates, easy access to credit, and real estate speculation fostered more than two million U.S. housing starts in 2005 and record lumber consumption from 2003 to 2005. With the decline in U.S. housing beginning in 2006, the 2008 global financial crisis, an over 50-year record low 554,000 housing starts in 2009, wood product prices and production fell dramatically. In 2009 and 2010, virtually every major western mill suffered curtailments and 30 large mills closed permanently. Sales value of wood and paper products in the West dropped from $49 billion in 2005 to $34 billion in 2009. Employment declined by 71,000 workers and lumber production fell by almost 50 percent from 2005 to 2009. Capacity utilization at sawmills and other timber-using facilities in the West fell from over 80 percent in 2005 to just over 50 percent in 2009 and 2010. With the exception of exports and some paper markets, U.S. wood products markets have improved little since the recession officially ended in 2009.

Is the Gallatin County economy regaining its pre-recession form? Judging from the most recent data you might be tempted to say it has.

There is no doubt about it Helena is a government town. The end of the state government pay freeze should temporarily boost growth in 2014. But the near-term trends for all levels of government will keep overall growth in the Lewis Clark County economy less than 2.0 percent per year, less than the statewide average.

This report traces the flow of Oregon's 2008 timber harvest through the primary timber processing industry and provides a description of the structure, operation, and condition of Oregon's forest products industry as a whole. It is the second in a series of reports that update the status of the industry every 5 years. Based on a census conducted in 2009 and 2010, we provide detailed information about the industry in 2008, and discuss historical changes as well as more recent trends in harvest, production, and sales. To convey the severe market and economic conditions that existed in 2008, 2009, and 2010, we also provide updated information on the industry and its inputs and outputs through 2010.

Even though the Montana economy has largely delivered the stronger growth that we predicted, it has not been fast enough to ease the apprehension shared by many that the recession is truly over.

A fact sheet outlining key indicators of the well being of Montana's children, including data on birth rates, death rates, children in poverty and other important indicators.

This report assesses housing affordability, and analyzes the factors affecting the cost of housing in major real estate markets within Montana.

A press release discussing the article "Montana Outlook: Stronger Growth Ahead" which appeared in the Montana Business Quarterly spring 2011 issue. This article predicts growth in the state economy in 2011, but not in the area of construction.

This is the sixth annual report to the community on housing in the city and county of Missoula. This report provides a gauge of the overall health of Missoula real estate and indicates real estate''s impacts on the overall local economy.

This poster gives a brief look at how the Western Forest Products Industry was affected by the recession and how it is coming out of it.

The worst recession since the 1930s ended in the summer of 2009. With sluggish hiring, weak growth, and a whiff of fresh banking problems in Europe and the United States, it doesn't feel like the economy is getting better. But with tax policy at last in place, with a weaker dollar and a slowly improving consumer mood, 2011 shapes up as the year that the recovery finally gets rolling in the national economy.

There is almost no place in Montana that escaped the Great Recession. But the course of the recession did vary from county to county within the state. How did the recession play out in different parts of the state?

Despite efforts by the federal government to increase home sales in 2010, the U.S. housing market continued to contract, with home sales declining by one-quarter. At the same time, the average number of homes offered for sale each month increased by one-half.

It certainly has been a trying time for the Montana economy. The state remains in the grip of its worst recession since the 1980s, and news of closures and layoffs is depressingly easy to find. Yet it is also apparent that a long-awaited recovery in the economy has begun to take hold.

This is an assessment of housing affordability and factors affecting the cost of housing for the major real estate markets within Montana.

A press release announcing that Patrick Barkey has scaled back his forecast of the state's economic performance for 2008 and 2009 from 4 percent annual growth to 3.3 percent.

Recessions usually hit some states harder than others. Here in Montana, we have been lucky that both the current recession and the last two (in 2001-02 and 1990-91) have been milder than the national average. The impacts of the credit crisis will be different.

The U.S. economy teeters on the brink of recession. The jitters started with the bursting of the house price bubble and continued with the credit crunch and high energy prices. The latest odds are about a 50-50 chance that the economy will fall into a recession during the next six months.