Last Wednesday, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation hosted its annual economic summit. Downtown denizens of Los Anchorage watched more than a thousand attendees navigate convention center chicken as number-crunchers told the tale of Alaska’s largest city and its economic fortunes.
And right on cue, the city’s newspaper of record was there — not to capture the real story, but to run its usual filtered version, where every chart and forecast is bent just enough to fit the preferred “Trump bad, tariffs worse” storyline.
This gathering is the closest most residents will get to a Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates, complete with politicians of every stripe in the audience, eager to divine their next-year talking points from whatever wisdom is dispensed in that hour and a half…