Dueling headlines in local media will lead to much confusion among retirees looking to relocate. The Minneapolis Star Tribune published this article last week under the headline: Is Minnesota one…
Yesterday, I noted that Minnesota had slipped one place — from 5th to 6th overall — in CNBC’s annual ranking of “America’s Top States for Business.” But so what? 6th…
Last year, there was much excitement among Minnesota’s political leaders and journalists when our state ranked fifth on CNBC’s annual ranking of “America’s Top States for Business.” Some headlines were:…
Gov. Walz is fond of touting the “fact” that Minnesota is one of the top five states for business. It isn’t. This alleged “fact” comes from a ranking complied by…
In a recent tweet, Gov. Walz references CNBC's notorious “America’s Top States for Business” rankings, where, in 2023, Minnesota did, indeed, beat Texas. But...
These were some of the headlines in local media in July, when CNBC released its annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking: On closer investigation it turned out that these…
Another day, another ranking of the states. On Wednesday, Gov. Walz tweeted: This was in response to a “study” — a word increasingly bereft of meaning since it is applied…
When CNBC announced recently that they had ranked Minnesota fifth on their annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking, the state’s media went wild. No less excited were our state’s political leaders,…
Yesterday I wrote about how CNBC’s much heralded rankings of “America’s Top States for Business” actually told you very little that was useful about which American states really are top…
Minnesota’s media is always on the lookout for good news stories about the state, which might explain the coverage given to our ranking of 5th in CNBC’s annual “America’s Top…
Minnesota’s Top 5 ranking for business by CNBC caught attention recently, as my colleague John Phelan wrote about here. But the state’s drop in the education subindex over the years…
Minnesotans might have been surprised yesterday to see headlines such as “Minnesota ranks No. 5 among ‘America’s Top States for Business’ by CNBC,” “Minnesota knocks Texas out of Top 5…
Since 2015, Minnesota has fallen from the top of CNBCs ranking of America's Top States for Business to 6th this year, down three spots from 2017. The fall was driven…
Minnesota has some strong cards in its economic deck. As CNBC's rankings show, its Big Government economic policies aren’t among of them.
CNBC's latest Top States for Business rankings give Minnesota a good grade overall, but economic policy gets a fail