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Michelle Balconi, of Grosse Pointe, recently gave an informative and entertaining account of a book she is writing on the "dismal science" — Economics. She is a contributing writer primarily focused on economic issues and social entrepreneurs. She has recently co-authored a family-friendly economic guide with leading U.S. economist and former presidential economic advisor Dr. Arthur Laffer — namesake of the so-called "Laffer Curve," which he neither coined nor invented. The working title of Balconi/Laffer's economics book is "It's Not a Mystery — It's Economics."

 
Before writing, Balconi worked in communications for 15 years alongside investors of early-stage technology companies introducing first-to-market products and services including the first public Internet kiosk and the first online high-yield bond trading system.
Balconi and her family moved to Grosse Pointe seven years ago from the Boston area and actively volunteers with several local organizations as well as Cass Community Social Services in Detroit and The Family Center of Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods. She also freelances for Pointe Magazine.
In a photo op after the meeting were, from left, President Paul Rentenbach, Communications Chair and Pointe Magazine Publisher John Minnis (who introduced the speaker), Balconi and Rotarian Dino Valente. Photo by Kermit Potter