Southwest Economy Archive

• September 21, 2020
  COVID-19’s fiscal ills: busted Texas budgets, critical local choices

  Jason Saving

  COVID-19 and related economic shutdowns have raised concerns that state and local government revenues will fall short of expectations just as demand for services soars.
• September 21, 2020
  Texas economy mends in fits and starts from pandemic’s onslaught

  Christopher Slijk

  A resurgent COVID-19 outbreak in Texas has stymied a state economic recovery, according to the Texas Business Outlook Surveys and high-frequency data that document activity on a more granular level.
• September 21, 2020
  Looking to economics for help in addressing enduring discrimination
  Gary A. Hoover holds a President’s Associates Presidential Professorship and is chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He specializes in policy analysis of income distribution and poverty, public finance and ethics in economics. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy.
• September 21, 2020
  Energy sector slow to recover from malaise arising from effects of global pandemic

  Emma Marshall and Pia Orrenius

  After absorbing a big hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy sector may take until 2022 to recover.
• September 21, 2020
  Vehicle sales highlight surprising resilience in spending during pandemic

  Design: Olu Eseyin; Content: Christopher Slijk, Chloe N. Smith

  Texas truck/SUV sales held steady while car sales declined steeply amid the recession caused by COVID-19.
• September 21, 2020
  Snapshot: Texas employment estimate debuts

  Jesus Cañas, Keith R. Phillips and Carlee Crocker

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ new Texas Weekly Employment Estimate (TWEE) is a timely tool to monitor evolving economic conditions while awaiting release of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ establishment survey of employment.
• June 23, 2020
  President’s perspective
  President Kaplan shares recent thoughts on the outlook for Fed policy, COVID-19 testing and negative interest rates.
• June 23, 2020
  Small business hardships highlight relationship with lenders in COVID-19 era

  Wenhua Di, Nathaniel Pattison and Chloe Smith

  The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted normal small business operations and will likely limit the ability of many enterprises to stay financially afloat.
• June 23, 2020
  COVID-19, oil price collapse dimming outlook for banks in 2020

  Amy Chapel and Kory Killgo

  Eleventh District banks face challenges from instability in the energy sector and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• June 23, 2020
  LiftFund’s microlending helps small businesses battle to survive COVID-19
  Janie Barrera is the founding president and chief executive officer of San Antonio-based LiftFund. Created in 1994, LiftFund has one of the nation’s largest microlending portfolios. The nonprofit provides loans and management training to very small enterprises in Texas and seven other states.