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Pandemic has brought recession quickly, upended economic expectations in Montana

April 3, 2020/

Patrick Barkey

“The answer we were saying a month ago was ‘really, nobody knows. After all, it is the future, but probably not.’ And that has hugely changed. It’s now clearly coming to an end,” The University of Montana’s Patrick Barkey said Thursday during a Montana State University Extension webinar about the emerging economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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