Articles from August 2012

Articles 21 AUG 12

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS Bloomberg columnist Caroline Baum does a sort of up-to-date book reviews of one of may all time favorites, “Capitalism and Freedom,” by Milton Friedman.  The underlying thesis of his argument laid out in book form is that economic freedom is the first and most important condition to political freedom and here Ms. [...]

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ARTICLES 4 AUG 12

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS I would add this article to my list of “Top 10 Economics related article of 2012.”   GM stock price looks to be collapsing, meaning the government bailed-out auto maker is doing as well as ……..the government. For the taxpayers to break even on the governments “investment,” they’d need a $17.25 billion [...]

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Primary – 14 August 2012

Know your candidates and where to vote With redistricting behind us we recommend that anyone who is unsure of their precinct go to the MNSoS (Secretary of State) site and use their pollfinder page. By way of an overview, the map below shows the Rice county BPOU’s relationship to MN SD and MN HD., also shown are [...]

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