Brock Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. He received a PhD from UC-Davis in 2013 and spent three years as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. He mainly studies effects of oil and natural gas shocks in both an international and domestic US setting.
Last month the Northwest Power and Conservation Council released an update of their “Northwest Power Plan”, a 20-year roadmap for…
Thanks to wildfires popping up all over the Northwest US (and Canada), Montanans have been dealing with a recent spate…
There has been much recent hand-wringing over Montana’s labor shortage. Many employers across the state (and the country, and many…
Last Friday (March 26th) The Montana Senate passed House Bill 259, which bans county and municipal governments from requiring developers…
Joe Biden’s first few days as President were a flurry of activity, including the signing of 30 executive orders. Shortly…