Colorado may have recovered the 375,000 jobs lost in the first two months of the pandemic, but we’re not back to peak employment yet. And while new business creations remained high so far this year, delinquencies and dissolutions are growing.
These and other trends were made clearer after the Secretary of State’s quarterly Business & Economic Indicators report released this week. But what to make of it? Brain Lewandowski, an economist who analyzes the data for the state, calls Colorado’s outlook “muddled.”
“I’ve been in this job, starting my 16th year now, and there’s always metrics that are moving in different directions and that’s what is a little bit frustrating. We can glom on to any single economic metric and say that the economy is improving or it’s not,” said Lewandowski, executive director of the Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado Boulder. “And that’s…
