In terms of raw spending, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the biggest piece of climate legislation ever passed in…
Author: Brock Smith
Brock Smith
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.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rocked the global energy market. Oil and gas prices were already soaring for a…
Year-over-year inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), hit 7% in December. The US is now clearly…
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…