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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2026 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference in Portland!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PNREC 2026 will be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon on May 19-21, 2026. Please join us for keynote addresses on tariffs, the U.S. and Canada economic outlook, and more.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We also invite you to submit an abstract or presentation proposal to share your research during our conference breakout sessions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conference registration and presentation submissions are both open at
<b><a href="http://www.pnrec.org/">www.pnrec.org</a>. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are delighted to welcome Dr. Christopher Sands to PNREC to continue our focus on Canada-U.S. economic relations. His talk will focus on overcoming the turbulence from Washington D.C. and strengthening
regional linkages in the Pacific Northwest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chris is the Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Amidst all the interesting federal policies being proposed and implemented in the past year, the Yale Budget Lab published timely detailed analyses on their economic impacts. So we're excited
to have John Ricco as a keynote speaker in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John is the Associate Director of Policy Analysis at the Yale Budget Lab. An expert in both public policy and data science, he develops microsimulation models used to evaluate the fiscal and
distributional effects of federal policy proposals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Newport<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Newport is executive director of US Economics at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He manages long-term forecasts for and co-manages the macroeconomic model.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Previously, he worked as a research economist for the Washington State Department of Revenue, where he later served as a senior economist for the Office of the Forecast Council of Washington
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please feel free to reach out to me at
<a href="mailto:Gail.K.Krumenauer@employ.oregon.gov">Gail.K.Krumenauer@employ.oregon.gov</a> with any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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