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(Omaha, NE) -- The Midwest economy has not grown as expected this year.
"The negatives are getting less negative, nonetheless the regional economy has slowed fairly significantly in 2025." Said Midwest Economist Ernie Goss of Creighton University in Omaha.
He says expected economic growth in the Midwest agriculture and manufacturing economies didn't happen this year.
"Both are showing the same thing, that the regional economy has slowed. Especially agriculture.
"I did not, the USDA did not, farmers did not anticipate the tariffs and the battle over retaliation from our trading partners, especially China." Goss Said.
"Exports to China are down 85 to 90-percent."
The U.S. GDP for the year is a weak 1.7 percent.
"A lot of that came from data centers investment. And, none of us can eat data centers." Goss said.
But, a pending U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the president's tariffs could help the export market in 2026.
"The Supreme Court is going to rule, hopefully soon, whether the president's tariff's abide by the Constitution whereby the Congress sets tax policy. The president does not set tax policy." Goss said. "So the Supreme Court ruling will be very, very important."