Tag: Economy

How have you changed your shopping habits?

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If tax breaks and a “business friendly” atmosphere is enough to keep businesses in Minnesota, you sure can’t tell by Pipestone, Minnesota.

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A four-month streak of rising resale prices for homes in the Twin Cities has ended.

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Wages are up, retail spending is up, and only commercial construction seems on the ropes.

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Here’s a breakdown showing where the money goes that the top 1 percent of wage earners in the country pay in taxes.

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Why is the U.S. losing jobs to overseas workers? Is it about the cost of doing business here or the lack of well-educated Americans?

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Is baseball a fitting analogy for economic principles? No.

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Bank of America’s decision to halt foreclosures confirms what many homeowners could’ve told them months ago: They’re not really sure what they’re doing.

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The bottom line of the government’s monthly unemployment report — the overall unemployment rate — gets all the headlines, but there are more details beyond the fact the unemployment rate stayed the same last month.

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But the monthly survey of the resale price of a home in the Twin Cities was nothing to write home about. T

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For the most part, there’s no middle ground on the question of tax cuts and allowing the so-called ‘Bush tax cuts’ to expire. People are either on one side or the other, especially since the theory of whether lower tax cut spurs economic growth remains a hotly debated point.

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