{"id":613166,"date":"2026-02-24T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/613166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:47:20","slug":"economist-valley-economy-better-than-national-but-uncertainty-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/613166\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist: Valley economy better than national, but uncertainty remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national economist laid out his economic outlook for the Valley for 2026 during the ULI Trends Day conference in Phoenix Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>John Chang, senior vice president and chief intelligence &amp; analytics officer for Marcus &amp; Millichap, says while the national economy is positive but fragile, the Phoenix-metro economy is stronger and has momentum moving into the new year.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said, that doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t uncertainty in the economy, as has been the case for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A national economist laid out his economic outlook for the Valley for 2026 during the ULI Trends Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":613167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,239,5643,1587,69,16043,51469,79,263,420,263031,117293,3097,1671,1589,10222,263032,24925,228,2175,74751,263030,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-613166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-economic-outlook","14":"tag-economist","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-employment","17":"tag-jobs","18":"tag-john-chang","19":"tag-marcus-millichap","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-nvidia","22":"tag-phoenix","23":"tag-projections","24":"tag-senior-vice-president-and-chief-intelligence-analytics-officer","25":"tag-supply-chain","26":"tag-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-company","27":"tag-tariffs","28":"tag-tsmc","29":"tag-uli-trends-day","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-united-states-of-america","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","34":"tag-us","35":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116126629749287153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}