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  • If Hollywood remakes the 1967 classic, The Graduate, the advice to Benjamin might be "federal government" instead of "plastics." As a way to…

  • Last night, my teenage son recited the famous first paragraph from A Tale of Two Cities. He's reading it for class. I chuckled while he said the…

  • Oct 7, 2007

    Q & A

    The latest Star Tribune column….

  • Last Wednesday, we held at an educational seminar at Minnesota Public Radio for people who are in domestic partner relationships. The auditorium…

  • This is the best defense of why the President should have signed rather than vetoed the SCHIP legislation. It's posted on Greg Mankiw's blog. …

  • Oct 6, 2007

    Are You a Quant?

    Andrew Lo is a finance economist and quant jock at MIT. I follow his work closely, and check in on his website every once in awhile to see what he…

  • I'll be participating in a panel on Kids, Values and Money tomorrow. If you're in town, I hope to see you. I haven't quite figured out how to get…

  • Oct 1, 2007

    Mandel on R&D

    Mike Mandel at Business Week has a very important post on new numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on his blog….

  • Good piece by Clive Crook in the Financial Times on the future of American unions. Here's the money quote:…

  • Oct 1, 2007

    More Q & A

    From the Sunday Star Tribune:…