“We’re back to the pre-Great Recession scenario. People are retiring in California, and they have a lot of their wealth tied up in equity. They sell their house, they move here, or to Salt Lake or to Phoenix. They buy a house maybe not be quite as grandiose as they had or is a reasonable facsimile their house in California. And they still have a lot of money left over,” Miller said.
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Inflation impacting recent Las Vegas tourism numbers and spending, UNLV researchers say
“Interest rates have gone up. And we know that we know that prices are going up as well. And that’s what the Fed is trying to get their hands around and solve. So it may be that the Fed’s policies is having an effect not only nationally, but it’s also affecting our economy locally,” said Professor Stephen Miller, one of the authors of the study.
Las Vegas Visitation Inches to Within 1% of Pre-Pandemic Level
According to a group of UNLV economic researchers, Las Vegas isn’t out of the pandemic woods yet. In fact, they said, visitation is likely to dip in 2023 and 2024, in accordance with an expected softening in the US economy. The group – which first announced its findings in April and reiterated them at a UNLV forum two weeks ago – predicts that visitation is likely to drop by about a million people next year, to between 37 million and 38 million.
https://www.casino.org/news/vegas-visitation-inches-to-within-1-of-pre-pandemic-level/
Rewriting Nevada’s Mining Story
At UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), director Andrew Woods cuts to the bottom line. “The demand for energy storage between electric cars, homes, and commercial is only going to grow exponentially,” Woods says. “The demand for batteries is forecasted to grow five times in the next eight years. Climate change is no longer a question of mitigation, but of human survival.”
https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/rewriting-nevadas-mining-story
Nevada’s jobless rate among nation’s highest, but economists aren’t alarmed
Andrew Woods, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at UNLV, said he was encouraged by the growing labor participation rate. He said increasing the participation rate to pre-pandemic levels — near 64 percent according to the BLS — was most important to recovery and the state’s economic growth.
“In the short-run, it’s not surprising to see that we’re still the highest unemployment rate, with transient workers and still a lot of job openings in our largest sector,” Woods said. “What I think is more concerning is what happened to (the workers) that should still be in the workforce?”
UNLV report: Las Vegas economy slowing down, but no recession in sight
The university’s Center for Business and Economic Research, or CBER, found that Nevada has experienced what it calls a “broke-V” recovery, according to its fall economic outlook report.
“We are not in a recession yet,” Andrew Woods, director of CBER, said in a news release. “But an economic slowdown is in the cards for 2023.”
https://news3lv.com/news/local/unlv-report-las-vegas-economy-slowing-down-but-no-recession-in-sight
Nevada economists forecast positive outlook for economy, even as national recession fears loom
As for why the housing market may experience a downturn, Andrew Woods, the director of CBER, pointed to the rapid rise in home prices following the brief pandemic recession.
“You should remember housing prices between 2020 and 2022 went up first 27 percent, and then they went up 17 percent,” Woods said during the Outlook presentation. “That’s pretty incredible. So the model’s looking at that and saying, ‘That’s maybe not sustainable for the moment and there’s a little bit of a correction.”
Las Vegas Ranked Third-Most Popular Thanksgiving Destination After Disney, AAA Says
Stephen M. Miller, director of research at the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research, notes that Las Vegas relies heavily on travel and tourism to support economic activity.
The climb back from the shutdown, however, occurred in starts and stops of several months’ duration, Miller said.
He notes that a new player in the local tourism economy is “sports entertainment.”
‘Adapt or give up’: Southern Nevadans forced to adjust as inflation rises
Stephen Miller, research director at UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said the August inflation report showed that a lot hasn’t changed in the economy.
“I don’t think there’s been really much of a change, the Fed is in charge,” Miller said. “And they’re going to reduce inflation, come hell or high water. It’s a short term cost in that the cost of not doing it now is that the longer term cost will be higher.”
Inflation looms over Nevada job recovery
UNLV economics professor, Stephen Miller, says Nevada’s jobless rate seems historically typical under the current circumstances, but the bigger picture is puzzling. “At least nationally, a 3.7% unemployment rate is really unusual. Unusually low,” Miller said. His concern going forward could hinge on what the Federal Reserve needs to do to curb inflation.
https://news3lv.com/news/local/inflation-looms-over-nevada-job-recovery