Iowa’s economy in a fog — data delays, trade pressures and what’s next?

Iowa’s economy in a fog — data delays, trade pressures and what’s next?

Nov 13, 2025

When the federal government shut down this fall, economists suddenly lost access to key data — just as questions about the economy’s health were heating up. Host Chris Conetzkey sits down with NPR’s Scott Horsley and the University of Iowa’s Anne Villamil to make sense of what we can see — and what uncertainty still clouds the picture.