Pacific Northwest economy goes south

05/16/2003 Mises Wire Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

“The Pacific Northwest is known for Microsoft, Intel, lattes, breathtaking natural beauty, alternative music, rain, stock-option millionaires and Ichiro Suzuki. We do not associate this forward-looking, entrepreneurial region with economic distress,” says E.J. Dionne.

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