Those who've listened to my radio program the last two weeks have heard me obsess over this survey of job openings, hirings and job separations. Thanks to Calculated Risk for the graph above. Those red bars indicate the rate at which workers are being involuntarily' [...] Hamp (Home Affordable Modification Program) is aimed at reducing interest payments and delaying principal payments for eligible homeowners. To do this they have to apply and then agree to enter a three-month trial period, in which they need to make' [...]
A report shows a troubling trend continuing: Students are leaving Minnesota colleges with record debt.
Minnesota's 2008 graduate had an average of $25,558 in debt -- the sixth-highest in the nation, according to the Project on Student Debt. (The state ranked fifth last year.) The proportion of graduates with [...]
Reading through O's speech on Afghanistan right now, I cannot help but wonder just where this guy got any kind of education.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, today criticised international investors' reaction to the Emirate's debt crisis, claiming: "They do not understand anything."
The defiant ruler, whose Government yesterday washed its hands of Dubai World, the state-owned conglomerate that owes $59 billion (£35.8 billion), also said:' [...]
...does anyone still want to argue about going for it on 4th and 2?First, the Fed announced that it will evaluate bankers’ pay' [...]
On the heels of its ballyhooed "Cash for Clunkers" program for cars, the federal government is expected to finalize details in the coming weeks of another tax-supported shopping extravaganza, known as "Cash for Appliances."
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The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers' lack of "cultural competence" contributes to the poor' [...]
While I was reading Eric's post, I came upon a title on that same site "Fear and Loathing in White Cloud." 'White Cloud' is a smear that people put on my fair city, and has been one I've heard pretty much since I moved' [...] 
The taxation story is not about the rich, folks. It's about the young earner. What this says is that, if you fully use the various transfer payments available to you as working poor (making $15,000) you can have goods priced at $40,000. If you earn $40,000' [...] 
trying a post from my Android phone. if this works I am happy. [...] 
trying a post from my Android phone. if this works I am happy. [...] August marks the anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall that for 28 years thereafter, divided the city of Berlin and closed off the only remaining escape hatch for people in the communist East who wanted freedom in the West. It was a [...]
David Prychitko reminds us "there are a million millions in a trillion." True only if you use the short system of measuring large numbers. Those of us who collect old European paper monies are familiar with the words milliard and billiard. And even more [...] [Y]esterday I was trying to teach the consequences of paying interest on reserves to my bright high school students. They got, correctly, that paying interest on reserves lowers the money multiplier (it makes banks want to hold more reserves, which [...]
I do a number of local talks in town, usually a couple per month, but for some reason I hadn't done any big ones in the last six weeks. So when I was prepping for this morning's talk to the collected Rotaries of the area, I [...] 
Due to flu of the regular host Don, I will be substituting the rest of this week on the KNSI Morning Show (except Wednesday, when I will be at the all-city Rotary speaking to a morning meeting.) No podcasts, but streaming audio is available. [...] The runway project especially affected such St. Paul neighborhoods as Highland Park, Mac-Groveland and Summit Hill, which are in the flight path of a secondary runway that's typically not heavily used. [...]
While some politicians talk about programmes designed to bring more people under the health-care umbrella, others talk about making health care more affordable. The former (combined with an [...]
I will be substituting for Don Lyons on the KNSI Morning Show tomorrow from 6 to 8 am tomorrow on 
Forgot to tell you: I'm sitting in for Don Lyons on the 
