A state economy is nothing without the businesses that call it home. But, as WaPo notes, those businesses are not created equally – bigger businesses naturally have outsized influence, generating more revenue, paying more taxes and employing more people. As Bloomberg notes below, some are less surprising – GM runs Michigan, ExxonMobil runs Texas, and Berkshire Hathaway runs Nebraska but for Washington (home of Microsoft), it is CostCo that runs the state.
So what’s the biggest business in your state?
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1obkPo3 Tyler Durden