With so much uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 crisis, it is difficult to predict how the economy will fair for the remainder of the year. Many […]
Christine Chmura
Christine Chmura is president and chief economist at Chmura Economics & Analytics. She can be reached at chris@chmuraecon.com.
Predicting economic growth and the outcome of elections have something in common: Both rely on assumptions. We economists make assumptions about when and by how […]
What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time there was talk of recession, in part, because the stock market and yield curve […]
The kickoff to the holiday selling season starts this month. It is an important time of year for retailers as holiday sales represent about 20% […]
Families in the Richmond region saw the rate of their inflation-adjusted incomes having the second-fastest growth among all 383 metro areas in the nation. Median […]
Thirty years ago this month, the first issue of Metro Business was published. Times were certainly different back then. The region is now larger geographically […]