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Credit Sheila Steele / Creative Commons Economists predict Michigan’s economic news should improve rapidly the rest of the year. (See report here.) The University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE) says the falling number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19 plus the vaccinations are good signs. “That’s the public health reason to be optimistic. And then there’s the fiscal policy standpoint, which is, you know, the federal government is injecting a lot of money into the economy,” said Gabe Ehrlich, Director of the RSQE. He says people...

The pandemic has had a severe impact on Michigan businesses and consumers, but the economy could improve quickly in 2021, especially as more and more residents are vaccinated, economists and a survey of business owners say.While 67% of survey respondents in Michigan said the coronavirus pandemic has had a somewhat or extremely negative impact on their business, 16% said the opposite, that it had an extremely positive or somewhat positive impact on their business, according to the Michigan