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Steve Perry

Steve Perry is a widely published critic of politics, culture and the arts whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Counterpunch, LA Weekly, the Boston Phoenix, London City Limits and Salon. He began his journalistic career as a music critic for City Pages back in 1984. He was editor of City Pages from 1989-1997 and 2002-2007. In addition, he is also a former contributing editor to Musician magazine and the acclaimed music industry newsletter Rock and Roll Confidential. Perry edits Politics in Minnesota.

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One last time: Friday links roundup

By Steve Perry | 06/12/09
I'm sad to say this is the last installment of PE; my other commitments are looming large and I really don't have the time to continue.
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Minnesota state finances are bleeding

By Steve Perry | 06/11/09
I want to flag a couple of recent developments in the area of eroding state finances that make neat, if gruesome, bookends.
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Wall Street reforms: Several questions and one answer

By Steve Perry | 06/08/09
Sandy Lewis and William Cohan's lengthy NYT op-ed from Sunday is the best opinion piece I've read in the financial pages in a while.
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Friday links roundup: Unemployment goes to 9.4

By Steve Perry | 06/05/09
This morning's BLS numbers show the unemployment rate jumping a surprising half-point to 9.4 percent even though the number of jobs lost came in at its lowest figure--345,000--since last September.
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Dean Baker: Reporters with pom-poms

By Steve Perry | 06/04/09
In a short, punchy essay at Counterpunch, Dean Baker reviews the economic statistics and the financial pages and finds a yawning gap: "For example, National Public Radio told listeners that the new home sales figure reported for April was up from t
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The U.S./China war of words: It's the politics, not the economics

By Steve Perry | 06/03/09
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has gotten out of China with his skin intact, but just barely. Geithner wrapped up his two-day trip with the announcement that the two sides will meet again in Washington on the week of July 27.
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GM bankruptcy won't solve US carmakers' biggest disadvantage: health care costs

By Steve Perry | 06/01/09
Now that the inevitable deed is finally done, today's financial pages--and most especially the opinion sections--are full of indignation over the losses imposed on bond and stock holders and ominous ruminations over the precedent set by government's
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Friday links roundup

By Steve Perry | 05/29/09
The must-reads: 1) The big story in credit markets this week has been the rise in Treasury yields.
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Hey--those green shoots are plastic!

By Steve Perry | 05/28/09
Even as the economy plunged at a terrifying rate through the fall and winter, the long-range economic forecasts produced by the most prestigious institutions of government and finance barely wavered in their conviction that this downturn would be fo
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MAAR's Allen: Case-Shiller drop reflects glut of distress sales

By Steve Perry | 05/27/09
This morning I talked to Mark Allen, the CEO of the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors, about those abysmal Case-Shiller numbers for March that I wrote about yesterday--a 6.1 percent single-month drop in local sale prices that set a record not