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Economics, the Garden of Eden, and resisting the no-new-taxes snake oil

By Chuck Brown | 07/28/11
OLIVIA, Minn. — The first chapter of Genesis describes a time before economics.Economics is all about allocating scarce resources to achieve the greatest benefit. The Garden of Eden was all about abundance. Nothing was scarce.
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Optimism rising among rural Minnesota manufacturers, except when it comes to health care

By Chuck Brown | 06/15/11
Optimism rising among rural Minnesota manufacturers, except when it comes to health care I feel a strong kinship for rural Minnesota business owners, having enjoyed a corporate career that included managing a manufacturing firm in Olivia, the Corn Ca