Bureau of Business & Economic Research

02/20/2025

Director Michael O'Donnell joined KUNM Radio Let's Talk New Mexico host Kaveh Mowahed and guests Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Association of National Park Rangers President Rick Mossman this morning.
https://www.kunm.org/show/lets-talk-new-mexico/2025-02-14/lets-talk-about-a-federal-workforce-reduction-in-new-mexico

02/20/2025

Director Michael O’Donnell will be stopping by too. Check it out!

About 22,000 New Mexicans worked for the federal government last year. Many people are nervous about the ongoing reduction in the federal workforce, but how severely could our state be impacted?

11/20/2024

It’s a full house at the 26th annual New Mexico Data Users Conference.

10/23/2024

BBER Director Michael O’Donnell, an economist who has helped officials game out the twilight of the boom, likened the task to the notoriously hit-or-miss art of predicting oil prices.

Oil money brought his county jobs, waterslides and a $900,000 concert. Chip Low fears what might happen when the good times turn bad.

05/17/2024

You too can use our economic forecast to help budget better. Message us, visit BBER.unm.edu or email [email protected] for more information.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/with-better-revenue-projections-city-council-adds-money-to-library-biopark-budget/article_7d1fd754-13e7-11ef-b969-678c01d6d9a6.html

An early May meeting of the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research came in the nick of time, as its updated economic forecast provided additional wiggle

04/12/2024

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/news/what-the-low-unemployment-rates-for-months-means-for-nms-economy/

Post-pandemic, New Mexico has had an extended run of low unemployment rates. New Mexico’s unemployment rate has remained stable at 4.0 percent since October 2023 with the state’s all-time lowest unemployment rate being 3.4 percent in August 2022, according to the Department of Workforce Solution...