Natalie Gochnour, director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, briefs the crowd about the U.S. and Utah economies at the Women Tech Council Innovation Summit. The event took place at the Zions Bancorporation Technology Center in Midvale. Photo by Brice Wallace.

Brice Wallace 
Salt Lake Business Journal

Say what you will about the economy — good, bad or otherwise — it’s caught the interest of Americans. Among them are Utahns engaged in tariff drama, “on recession watch” and potentially at higher risk for trouble because of the state’s international trade ties.

“We’ve got a lot of drama going on in the economy,” Natalie Gochnour, director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute and associate dean of the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, told a crowd at the recent Women Tech Council Innovation Summit at the Zions Bancorporation Technology Center in Midvale.

“My message on the economy is, yeah, we’re at Please log in to see the rest of this story.