Talent Matters Most Again
Important and unexpected article from Crain’s Detroit Business on Michigan’s shortage of automotive engineers. That’s right, shortage! Conventional wisdom is that we have a big competitive
the Education Multiplier
Terrific blog by Harvard’s Edward Glaeser in the NY Times on the power of education attainment for regional economies. Worth reading! He finds that today
The Trends That Matter
We have been writing for years about two dominant trends in the economy. The first – and the most important – is that the knowledge-based
A Quality of Place Agenda
Governor-elect Snyder was right on when he wrote in his ten point plan that “many of Michigan’s youth are looking for an appealing metropolitan community
Getting Poorer Quick
In each of our annual progress reports Don Grimes and I have predicted that Michigan’s per capita income would fall to the mid thirties because
