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Professor Neil Bruce of the University of Washington recently lectured on the economy's impact on the presidential election. Making use of the Fair Model, he predicted that President Bush would win in November with a 54 percent vote. [READ MORE]

The Puget Sound economy does not have a will to do good or bad. Nevertheless, as we become mired in a recession, it is hard to escape the feeling that the economy has let us down. The things that we once admired about the economy--Boeing, high-technology, international trade, and energy prices--have seemingly turned their backs on us. [READ MORE]

History is not preordained to repeat itself, except maybe in the case of the Puget Sound economy (King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties). For the fifth straight time, the region is beginning a decade with a slowdown or worse. [READ MORE]

Is our highly touted economy, on the eve of hosting 5,000 delegates to the World Trade Organization conference, suddenly falling apart? The answer is no, at least not in the short term [READ MORE]

At the risk of being accused of shirking our duty, we present pretty much the same forecast as last time. In fact, the projected Puget Sound employment growth rates are exactly the same: 5.0 percent in 1997 and 3.5 percent in 1998. [READ MORE]

In the aftermath of The Boeing Company announcement in January 1993 to slash commercial aircraft production by 30 percent, the Puget Sound region is now precariously perched on the edge of recession. [READ MORE]