MinnEcon Blog

Your favorite government service? Cut it?
Are government workers overcompensated compared to private sector employees? Share your insight.
Bank bailouts and taxes
Narayana Kocherlakota, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, on how to deal with future, and inevitable, bank bailouts.
Economic Lookout: Entrepreneur in a recession
It's hard to be an entrepreneur in a recession. A dispatch from our Economic Lookout in Duluth
Some positive national data and a local story of being hired should give us all some reason to hope.
Minnesota's Supreme Court shot down Gov. Pawlenty's use of emergency budget power. Tell us what that means for you.
Like a pummeled prize fighter, Minnesota housing markets continue to rise but stagger.