By around this time next month we’ll be knee-deep in pitches for us to buy new cars.
The new vehicles, you may have heard, allow you to read Facebook while you drive, impress your neighbors, and satisfy your need to buy something — anything as dictated by the new definition of a good American. Read more →
The average American only gets about 10 days of paid vacation if they get vacation at all. For many, it’s a use-it-or-lose-it proposition and as 2014 is in its final days, many are willing to lose the vacation time. Read more →
St. Cloud’s only airline is flying half-full airplanes while cashing subsidy checks. But it’s still losing money and the end — if history is any guide — is near. Read more →
Back in the day, Cuba was pretty well exploited by American corporations, so a comment from an American CEO on CNBC this morning probably isn’t going to go over big on the island. Read more →
Behold, the business possibilities of booze in Minnesota! Read more →
We’re hard pressed to imagine anyone in Minnesota has the commute that Ian Bearce of Minneapolis has. Read more →
You probably made more money in the stock market than Mo Islam did. Read more →
What kind of weird economy do we have when we have to start rooting for higher oil prices? Read more →
But 44 percent of the men in the survey said there were jobs in their area, but they’re not willing to take them. Read more →
When it comes to human behavior and the economy, everything old is new again. Read more →
Someone in America thinks Hallmark is secretly embracing Nazis and Hallmark is too skittish too just say, ‘”sometimes intersecting lines are simply intersecting lines.’ Read more →
Kip Hedges was fired after giving an interview to Workday Minnesota in October. Hedges is a baggage handler at the airport.
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In San Jose, Calif., today, authorities went ahead with their plan to clear what they say is the largest homeless camp in the United States. Read more →
North Dakota’s oil boom is being helped leaders looking away from the environmental disaster that is unfolding in the state, the New York Times reported this weekend. Read more →
Forty percent of the young people in America ages 16 to 24 don’t have a job, according to data from Pew Research released today.
That’s certainly an eye-opening statistic. Here’s the befuddling one, at least to those of us who drag ourselves out of bed and out the door on a near daily basis: Many of them don’t want jobs. Read more →
Bob Collins