It’s a presidential tradition that serious, tier one candidates for the office speak at the Detroit Economics Club. Young people must wonder why since Detroit is almost never the city mentioned as the destination of the modern ambitious. It’s yesterday, so why would Detroit’s Economics Club remain a major, well-covered presidential campaigning spot? The answer seems to be that tradition dies hard.
Right up into the 1970s Detroit certainly was a center of American commerce, and as such it was rare for someone on the verge of attaining a Harvard Business School degree to not have a few Detroit companies (think carmakers, of course) on the interview schedule. A speech in Detroit matters now because commercial activity in Detroit once mattered.
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