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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Economic Competitiveness: Utah ranks #1

The ALEC - Laffer State Economic Competitive Index just rated Utah #1 for the second year in a row.

Source material:
The full PDF (164 pages)

Utah's page (page 135 only)

Information on the ALEC Site
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Analysis:
KCPW: Utah Tops National List for Economic Outlook

KSL: Utah poised to rebound from recession quickly

Stateline.org: Utah first in "Economic Competitiveness"

Ladies Logic: And the 2009 Winner is . . .



Video Courtesy of KSL.com

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2 Comments:

Anonymous FreeAndEqual.org said...

Political competitiveness?

Not so much....

3/17/2009 11:16 PM  
Blogger JHP said...

I think it's important to remember that Utahns, not Utah government, are what make our economy competitive. Utahns are productive; they don't need GOED or anybody else to "develop" the economy.

Also, I'm pleased about this ranking, but why are we so obsessed with comparing ourselves with others? Who cares? I know it makes us happy to see that we're better off than other people, and it's good to identify what we are doing right so we can keep doing it, but it would be better mostly to compare our own performance with our own potential as Utahns.

We should do the very, very best we can do and stop worrying about what other people are doing. Even if we really are the most economically competitive state, we can do so much more and shouldn't settle for being in a better position than other states. All is not well in Zion just because a report tells us we're better than other states.

3/18/2009 10:52 AM  

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