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 sectors of the economy now account for almost all the job growth and most of…
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 per capita income is increasingly correlated with a state's ranking in college attainment. Michigan is…
Worth Reading
When I committed to writing a blog twice a week I worried that I wouldn't have enough to write about. Boy was I wrong. The exact opposite has been the case. I keep putting aside articles that I want to…