Economic slowdown could arrive a bit sooner than some Colorado economists predicted

BOULDER — The good news? Colorado’s economy is still growing. The bad? A slowdown that University of Colorado Boulder Leeds Business Research Division thought was likely to occur in late 2023 may be upon us already. 

The state’s economy was “growing but slowing” in the first quarter of 2023, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Thursday when she presented the findings of Colorado’s Quarterly Business and Economic Indicators report, compiled by her office and the Leeds BRD. The “upward trajectory” persisted in the Centennial State, “even as economic uncertainty gripped much of the nation.”

Griswold’s office recorded 55,787 new-entity filings, up…