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September 24, 2010 10:00 AM

Cash = muscle in Twin Cities real estate

Cash is king in the Twin Cities market for bank owned homes under $100,000. Is that good?

by Paul Tosto

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September 23, 2010 5:57 AM

Modifying a loan? Four things you need to know

Four things to know before your try to modify your mortgage payments.

by Molly Bloom

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September 22, 2010 9:05 AM

Minnesota’s labor force: The exit continues

Hey Minnesota labor force, where you going?

by Paul Tosto

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September 21, 2010 8:30 AM

What’s your October economic outlook?

Recession ended? Really? Tell us what your economy's looking like for October.

by Paul Tosto

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September 20, 2010 7:30 AM

OK, my recession was NOT longer than your recession

The Great Recession is longer than the '81 - '82 downturn. But is it worse?

by Paul Tosto

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September 17, 2010 9:30 AM

Economic Lookout: Art crawl as economic development

Businesses see the economic value of scruffy artists. A dispatch from our western Minnesota Economic Lookout.

by Paul Tosto

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September 17, 2010 9:20 AM

Consumer price inflation

From chief economics correspondent Chris Farrell Government statisticians said today that consumer price inflation remains tame. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is up a mere 1.1 percent over the past 12 months ending in August. The so-called core rate of inflation–the CPI minus volatile food and energy–has risen a 0.9 percent over the same time…

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September 16, 2010 9:41 AM

Insight into a grim housing market

From chief economics correspondent Chris Farrell The news on the housing market is grim. To get another read on the market, I decided to look at what Morris Davis, professor of real estate and urban land economics at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is writing. He does some of…