Highlighting the dynamic economy of Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico
December 4, 2024
Robert Leigh, Laila Assanie and Isabel Brizuela
While New Mexico continues to navigate economic and demographic challenges, increased revenues from oil and gas production provide opportunities to invest in education, infrastructure and other improvements to boost long-term growth.
November 22, 2024
William Serrata, president of the El Paso County Community College District, discusses the unique, postpandemic challenges that community colleges face.
September 30, 2024
Sheila Olmstead, professor at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, discusses the competing demands for water in Texas and the challenges that growth poses.
September 20, 2024
Michael Plante, Vaughn Hajra and Sasha Samperio
The Smackover Formation, extending broadly from East Texas to Florida, is ground zero in the effort to produce lithium from oilfield brines.
August 14, 2024
Mariam Yousuf and Prithvi Kalkunte
Despite community banks’ relative strength in Texas, the outlook through year-end 2024 comes with evolving downside risks, particularly involving unrealized losses on fixed-income holdings.
August 5, 2024
David Anderson, professor and extension economist with the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, discusses what’s driving cattle and beef prices from feedlots in the Texas Panhandle to supermarkets at a time when the size of the overall U.S. herd is at a more-than six-decade low.
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