Tag: money
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November 06, 2009 06:18 PM EST --
Back on August 1st we were headed up to the Brainerd Lakes area to visit my inlaws, but we couldn't help but check out a "neighborhood" sale taking place the full length of 50th St. in the Nokomis . . .
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August 28, 2009 04:54 PM EDT --
We told you last week about the .3 percent decrease in Minnesota’s unemployment numbers. That's the good news.
But check this out: The number of job vacancies decreased by 40 percent from the . . .
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September 23, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Marketplace's Small Town Hall posed financial questions to eight kids and share a series of seven revealing videos. This one struck me as particularly interesting, because it was so clearly a debate . . .
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August 24, 2009 09:39 AM EDT --
Well now, this looks interesting:
The rich who ask to pay more taxes
A group of wealthy people believe they should pay more in taxes and are circulating a petition to support the reversal . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
Is the new American dream simply to buy low and sell high? But how, in this market? From Minnesota Public Radio News feature Real estate is a tough sale:
Real estate statistics show a continued slump . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
Education is one of the biggest line items of Minnesota's budget.
Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty had a few choice comments about education costs and spending when addressing the Association . . .
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October 24, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
Most college graduates walk out not only with the sheepskin but with loans to pay for that education.
But how has that changed as the economy has tanked and jobs are getting scarcer?
We at Minnesota . . .
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April 29, 2007 08:17 AM EDT --
This week the Apple Valley suburb had the Diamond Path Neighborhood sale.
We checked out about 50 sales there before lunch and then hit about a half dozen in the 46th Street/Summit . . .
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December 12, 2007 09:52 AM EST --
Now, Cardboard Boxes Among Many Indicators for Fed (NPR) but what are our indicators? Yesterday Bob Collins took a look at the pocket economy , in which the economic "truth is best uncovered . . .
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August 20, 2009 11:59 AM EDT --
In just nine months, Amanda Halbersma, a Public Insight Network source, went from buying a foreclosed home to worrying about the possibility of foreclosure with that very same house.
Several years . . .
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September 23, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
Today we made a short day of it. We had about two and a half hours, so we picked a couple self-described "neighborhood yard sales" out in the suburbs of Woodbury and Maplewood, MN. . . .
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January 21, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
What products or gadgets have you tried, and realized they just aren't what you hoped they'd be?
Here are some things that I've bought or used that looked like a great idea but weren't. . . .
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November 16, 2007 02:43 PM EST --
Don't be caught without a topic!
Tightwads and Spendthrifts We all know a total tightwad or a reckless spendthrift. You might even be one. Things to debate: What kind of marketing makes . . .
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December 04, 2006 11:51 AM EST --
Do you remember the $300 tax rebate checks you got from President Bush? Sure $300 in the mail is nice, but I also remember that this was a time that most of the social services in our town . . .
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October 21, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
MPR and the Citizen's League team up for a live event discussion in Policy and a Pint: Economic Meltdown, Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Host Steve Seel will have Senior economics editor . . .
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August 26, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
Much remains unknown about the performance of the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the federal stimulus effort.
So when Rep. Betty McCollum held a hearing . . .
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October 29, 2009 09:42 AM EDT --
Dale Petrie always thought his card company wouldn't mess with his terms or interest rate as long as he paid his bill on time.
"I thought it would be based on behavior," said the 38-year-old St. Paul . . .
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June 23, 2007 07:54 PM EDT --
This week we found three neighborhood yard sales, but the first one in the Minnekadha Vista neighborhood of Minneapolis wore us out. After about 40 sales we were done. There was an enormous . . .
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September 30, 2007 02:30 PM EDT --
Janie decided to work this Saturday, and had to be to work at 10. So no yard sales for her, right? We found a way around that.
The St. Paul, MN Junior League was having a sale that started . . .
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November 10, 2007 09:26 AM EST --
Oil, will the price ever go down? Well at this time almost all the easy to get good light sweet crude is gone, and the remaining oil although great in quantity, is difficult to get and difficult to refine, . . .
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