I haven't seen much discussion about the downward revisions to Oklahoma job data released earlier this month. We knew some weakness was coming, but the size of it was a surprise. The March CES benchmark revisions for Dec 2025 weighed…
RegionTrack recently released a research report examining changes in electricity prices nationally and in Oklahoma from 2020 to 2025. The research evaluates the significance of the price increase relative to the nation and other states and explores the underlying causes…
Oklahoma's post-pandemic recovery has been disappointingly slow relative to the nation. The state and both major metro areas have lagged well behind the U.S. in job formation during much of the recovery period. An already-stalled economy leading into the pandemic…
Retail sales across Oklahoma's cities continue to improve. State sales subject to both sales and use tax are down only 5.4% year-to-date through July of 2020 vs. 2019. The gap relative to 2019 has narrowed steadily since April. July 2020…
Overall state retail results are as bad as expected at this stage of the slowdown. State sales subject to sales and use tax are down 9.8% in the March/April/May period of 2020 vs. 2019. This is fairly consistent with our…