Economic growth in Texas and in the greater Houston region will likely be tepid in while inflation will continue to be “sticky” in 2026, an economist told a Fort Bend County audience last week.
Jesse Thompson, a senior business economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s Houston branch, spoke at the Ford Bend County Chamber of Commerce in Sugar Land on December 18.
“The forecast is for trend or near-trend GDP growth through 2026, 1.8 to 2 percent,” Thompson told an audience of business leaders and elected officials. “We’re a little bit below that.”…