MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE BUREAU OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH.

• Author: Polzin, Paul E.
• Position: LETTER

After arriving in Missoula as a newly minted Ph.D. economist in 1968, a hot-off-the-press issue of the Montana Business Quarterly was deposited on my desk. This was my introduction to the economics of the real world in the American West.

The Montana Business Quarterly continues to document trends in state and local economies, as well as the economic mega events of the past decades--such as the coal and electricity boom of the 1970s; the disastrous impacts of the double-dip recessions and the demise of the Anaconda Company in the 1980s; and the emergence of high tech in recent years.

The Montana Business Quarterly not only reports economic trends, it also provides expert commentary on important political and social topics. These articles are not the one-sided rants that often appear in Op-Ed pages, they are carefully...