Tag: Dr. Pat Barkey
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Housing Summit Closely Scrutinizes Local Market
By Evelyn Pyburn When it comes to housing affordability, Billings is in a better situation than many other areas of the state, but the plight of other areas still impacts Billings. “It’s better to get ahead of the issue of housing affordability,” said Colten Bryant, in speaking at the Housing Strategy Summit in Billings. Bryant…
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Worst Business Plunge
It’s been reported before that the economic impacts on Montana of the COVID-19 crisis has been greater than the Great Recession, by Dr. Pat Barkey, Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, UM, but a most recent published report in the Montana Business Quarterly, starkly emphasizes the contrast. According to Barkey, “The economy…