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Elizabeth Warren wants to tax guns so people buy less of them. Now apply that logic across the board
Sen. Warren's claims taxes on gun manufacturers magically do two things at once. On the one hand, they will stop gun and ammo sales. On the other, they will massively increase revenues from those gun ...
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Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 8/9/19
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota....
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D. A. Pennebaker, 1925-2019
For a while in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, was one of the dominant cultural forces in the world and a large part of that was the image of him as the impossibly cool...
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Do Minnesota’s music therapists really need a license?
Occupational licenses harm economic growth, are about protecting producers, not consumers, and have been increasing in extent in Minnesota in recent years. The fight to license our music therapists i...
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President Trump’s misguided trade war is hitting Minnesota’s farmers
For his own sake, as well as that of Minnesota's beleaguered farmers, President Trump should bring this trade war to an end....
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