Southwest Economy Archive
Historical archive Southwest Economy, produced quarterly
1988–2022, includes a print edition for each issue.
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September 22, 2023
Ben Munyan, director of supervisory policy in the Banking Supervision Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, discusses the challenges the banking industry faces in an era of rapidly rising interest rates and how Texas institutions have fared.
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July 7, 2023
Softek chief executive Beni Lopez discusses the competitive challenges the firm faces in the North American market, where many of the world’s leading tech services firms are based, and the genesis of the company’s nearshoring strategy.
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June 1, 2023
Ben Munyan
Texas banks confront an increasingly challenging operating environment, as the state’s usually strong economic growth is predicted to slow later this year and the Federal Reserve’s rapidly rising interest rate environment pressures some institutions’ profitability.
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May 5, 2023
Dallas Fed economist David Rapson discusses the challenges of moving away from a fossil-fuel-dependent economy.
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April 21, 2023
Wenhua Di and Aparna Jayashankar
Housing affordability has declined in Texas, a top destination for domestic and international migrants drawn by its historically low cost of living.
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April 14, 2023
Luis Torres and Aparna Jayashankar
When it comes to trading goods with the United States, Mexico would appear a logical sourcing alternative to China. Before the pandemic, increasing friction between the U.S. and China—the top supplier of goods imports to the U.S. in 2019—contributed to an anticipated “nearshoring” shift among companies dependent on Asia.
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March 10, 2023
Michael D. Plante and Jessica Rindels
Tesla is developing the facility near Corpus Christi to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide, a lithium chemical used in the high-performance lithium-ion batteries that companies such as Tesla prefer.
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March 10, 2023
Daniel Chiquiar, professor of economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico) and former chief economist of Mexico’s central bank, Banco de México, discusses the country’s recent economic performance and the challenges it faces in 2023.
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December 22, 2022
Anil Kumar
Amid widespread reports of worker shortages, Texas' not-so-constricted labor markets have helped the state outpace the nation in job growth.
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December 22, 2022
Jesse Thompson
The cost of keeping the lights on in Texas homes has soared this year, as natural gas prices attained highs not seen since 2008.
Southwest Economy has been published since 1988 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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