Prominent economist says Florida looks mostly sunny

The United States may be entering an economic slowdown in the coming months, but Florida’s economy will be largely sheltered from this storm in 2024. 

After the 2008-09 and 2020 recessions hit Florida’s economy disproportionately hard, a slowing national economy won’t have the same devastating impact on the Sunshine State or in the Tampa Bay and Gulf Coast regions. 

Instead, we’ve got “sandbags” of population growth to protect us, shoring up the economy here and helping curtail the erosion of economic activity that was so destructive to our region’s economy during those previous recessions.