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MinnEcon Blog

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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Modifying a loan? Four things you need to know

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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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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Economic Lookout: Art crawl as economic development

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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Consumer price inflation

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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Insight into a grim housing market

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…

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MN jobless rate edges up to 7 percent: Quick hits

MN jobless rate edges up to 7 percent: Quick hits

A quick look at this morning's MN jobless data finds little overall job growth and serious problems for the construction sector.
by Paul Tosto

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In Minnesota and nation, a look at rural jobs lost

Why did some rural Minnesota counties fare so poorly the past three years while others did OK?
by Paul Tosto

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