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Brad Allen

After working as a journalist in both the general and business press in New England, Brad Allen has spent much of his professional life on the corporate side, particularly in investor relations for technology companies, including DEC, Cray and Imation. He also consults with public companies on their dealings with Wall Street and is a contributor to financial publications, writing about the capital markets.

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Business

Rival medical device-makers trade barbs over dismissed sales reps

By Brad Allen | 02/12/10
Boston Scientific’s spat with St. Jude Medical reflects white-hot competition in a cooling multi-billion dollar market for cardiac-rhythm-management devices from pacemakers to implantable defibrillators.
Business

Minnesota workers' comp costs among lowest in 15-state study

By Brad Allen | 02/11/10
Minnesota's workers compensation costs were 30 percent below the median total cost per claim among a 15-state sample, according to a recent study.
Business

Area survey identifies rising health care costs as biggest obstacle to business growth

By Brad Allen | 02/10/10
More than one in five employers in Minnesota and western Wisconsin cite rising health care costs as their greatest impediment to business expansion, according to a survey released this week by Health Partners.
Politics & Policy

Massive job fair turnout and upbeat employer mood offer a bit of hope

By Brad Allen | 02/09/10
It's not a standard leading economic indicator, but the strong turnout at Monday's job fair, as well as the mood — at least among potential employers — seemed more hopeful than dour.
Business

Arthur Rolnick pleased with Fed's role in helping to form public policies

By Brad Allen | 02/09/10
Assessing his 40-year Fed career, the Minneapolis bank’s director of research believes the economic work he and his colleagues do is an important “tool to help better civilization, better the United States [and] better world economies.” Second o
Business

Rolnick reflects on four decades at the Minneapolis Fed

By Brad Allen | 02/08/10
A fixture in business and economics in the Upper Midwest for decades, Dr. Arthur J.
Business

With a 35-month downhill roll, recession taking toll on truckers in Minnesota and nation

By Brad Allen | 02/05/10
The economic downturn has caused job losses of historic proportions in the trucking industry across the United States and in Minnesota, which has recorded its lowest level of employment in the tough-to-measure sector in a decade.
Business

Administration’s Community Bank proposal draws praise and fire

By Brad Allen | 02/04/10
President Obama’s proposal to ease the credit squeeze on small business through community banks is getting a qualified thumbs-up from a Minnesota community bankers’ organization as well as the state’s two Democratic senators.
Business

Slowing of growth in Minnesota jobless rate a positive sign for economy

By Brad Allen | 02/03/10
If there is a silver lining in the unemployment numbers that continue to show swelling ranks of jobless in Minnesota, it has to do with a slowing growth rate for jobless numbers.
Business

'Gen Y' feeling left out of job market, causing big problem for them -- and for business world, recruiter says

By Brad Allen | 02/02/10
Pointing to historically high unemployment among the college-educated 30 and younger, Twin Cities-based recruiter Simon Foster worries that younger people are not getting the needed work experience and that, in the process, companies could be creati