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A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

Milton Friedman was an economist with a rare gift for translating technical arguments into clear prose (as you will find at length in his books Capitalism and Freedom and Free…

New data shows that, on jobs, Minnesota's metropolitan areas are losing ground relative to their neighbors.

The Senate Republicans have released their tax bill and, like the bill that passed the House on Monday, it proposes cuts in lower income tax rates. While it leaves higher…

Our treatment by Congress and presidents back to George H. W. Bush has been downright shabby. The refugee resettlement program is a federal program; it was supposed to be paid…

The administrative state operates largely under the radar. Yet every once in a while the public gets a peek at the way things really work, how regulations written by anonymous…

The House tax bill, passed last night, is an improvement on the Governor's tax hike. But for all the talk of tax cuts, this is really only proposing to keep…

The majority of the consequences of any act are unintended. When appraising a policy, we must look at the unintended consequences, not just the intended ones. 

Leftists often say they’re happy to pay taxes. So why the outrage from hundreds of residents in the reliably one party city of Minneapolis suddenly flooding City Hall with complaints…

Legislators didn’t bat an eye two years ago, passing licensing regulations for eyelash extension technicians. Despite warnings licensing would ultimately drive up costs and drive out businesses, most lawmakers voted…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

It is finally Tax Freedom Day in Minnesota, eight days after the national day. Every time in those last eight days that you have dragged yourself out of bed, commuted…

Career and technical education (CTE) programs are ready to be taken seriously. Gone is the vocational education of years past that was generally interpreted as second-best and known to channel…

Americans seem to love ranking their states and when these reflect well on the state Minnesota's media likes to publicize them. But a new ranking showing that our economic performance…

Minnesota's rate of job growth in the twelve months to March 2018 ranked 37th out of the 50 states. Isn't this because unemployment in the state was already low? Well,…

Fantasy sports are increasingly popular in Minnesota. So, of course, the state government wants to get involved.

With the worker shortage problem expected to explode from the current 60,000 unfilled jobs to as many as 280,000 by the end of 2022, sufficient improvements to Minnesota’s talent development…

The argument that deficit spending is needed to maintain full employment is an old one. Here, in a column from this day in 1963, Newsweek's Henry Hazlitt sets the record…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

As Boomers retire, the number of unfilled jobs in Minnesota is expected to explode from 60,000 to as much as 280,000 in just five years.

Minnesota's tax climate is bad for business. Happily, two bills, from either side of the aisle, look to help that.

Today is national Tax Freedom Day. Until now, on average, every time an American worker has got out of bed and gone to work, every clock they've punched, they've done…

When Gov. Dayton announced his tax bill in March, his office reported that "The Governor’s 2018 tax bill prioritizes low-income and middle-class families across Minnesota, just as he has for…

Do young Minnesotans need a four-year college degree to find success in life? Many high school students say that’s the message they’re getting. But a first-ever Thinking Minnesota Poll makes…