For forty years, Dick Conway was principal of Dick Conway & Associates, a Seattle research and consulting firm specializing in regional economic forecasting and analysis. Between 1993 and 2017, he was also co-publisher of The Puget Sound Economic Forecaster, a quarterly forecast and commentary on the regional economy. While earning a living as a private economist and spending thirty-three years on the Washington Governors' Council of Economic Advisors, the author has managed to keep one foot in academia. He has also taught courses in Macroeconomics and Regional Analysis at the University of Washington (USA), published nineteen articles in regional economic journals and books, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regional Science and International Regional Science Review.