Explaining Michigan’s lost decade

Don Grimes and I have written in each of our annual progress reports on the Michigan economy that Michigan's economic collapse the past decade could best be explained as a single industry recession, rather than a single state recession. That…

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Not MEDC

We are likely to hear in the coming weeks that restoring the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) to its pre Granholm incarnation is a key to the state's economic turnaround. Don't believe it! In the 30 months prior to Granholm's…

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