Tag: stimulus
member name: Paul Tosto
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October 12, 2009 04:54 PM EDT --
We've written a lot about stimulus spending , often with a skeptical eye. There's no doubt money is finding its way into Minnesota's economy . The larger question -- is it worth the gigantic . . .
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March 25, 2009 05:47 PM EDT --
We're told that if we don't start spending and stop saving soon, we'll make the economy even worse. But is anyone really buying that (pun intended)?
Talk to your friends and neighbors . . .
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April 10, 2009 04:15 PM EDT --
Realtors have an obvious interest in talking about how now is the right time to buy a house. Boom or bust markets, it's always a good time to buy!
Today, though, the St. Paul Area Association . . .
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April 20, 2009 10:47 AM EDT --
When someone describes their current economic outlook as "bright" these days, it's worth a deeper look.
Chris Erickson of Minneapolis saw it as bright after recently discovering the . . .
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March 23, 2009 10:59 AM EDT --
It's $800 billion of love, right? The massive federal stimulus package is supposed to bring more than $4 billion in new spending to Minnesota. Projects are already laid out for greater Minnesota . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
If consumers don't feel good about the economy, they don't spend. And if they don't spend, companies that sell stuff get very nervous. We should get a good read Friday on how consumers are . . .
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March 30, 2009 09:16 PM EDT --
Major economic reports on Tuesday include the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index , which will tell us how much our home values dropped in January. The data helpfully breaks out losses by . . .
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March 31, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
We've been asking citizens in our Public Insight Network the past few weeks about what piece of the federal stimulus they might be seeking. But imagine being a mayor in small town Minnesota trying . . .
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April 13, 2009 07:05 PM EDT --
In this economy, we are all saving as much as we can, paying down debt and becoming more frugal. That's a theme we hear regularly as we talk about the economy in Minnesota. As economic watchers wait . . .
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April 23, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
Most of us are not spending cash these days unless we have to. So Ron Hall of St. Paul, one of our Public Insight Network sources, caught our attention recently when he told us despite tight . . .
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June 01, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
Save or spend? It's one of our favorite issues here at MinnEcon. I believe this recession is shifting American saving and spending patterns permanently away from consumption and toward savings.
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April 07, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
It won't be a ton a money but you should see a little more cash rolling into your paycheck in the next few weeks -- part of the federal stimulus package known as the Making Work Pay Tax Credit . . .
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February 23, 2009 11:51 AM EST --
So there's $4 billion coming to Minnesota from the federal economic stimulus package. The feds figure 66,000 jobs will be created here over the next two years. I haven't found a site that explains . . .
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March 26, 2009 04:43 PM EDT --
When the federal stimulus package was passed in February, it wasn't clear how long it would take to see real impact. We knew there was money for making homes more energy efficient and that the regions . . .
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April 08, 2009 11:39 PM EDT --
So the Minnesota Department of Transportation today put out its big list of road projects for the season -- 223 state highway and bridge projects worth about $1.4 billion.
Sixty . . .
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May 26, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
We've seen signs the past couple months the Twin Cities housing market is starting to drag itself back to its feet. But new data released today from the respected S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price . . .
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August 03, 2009 02:34 PM EDT --
Transportation was the place where I really expected to see a clear line drawn between the federal stimulus money and thousands of new jobs. But the Minnesota job numbers aren't coming close to what . . .
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March 03, 2009 10:37 AM EST --
OK, maybe it's a stretch to call a $4.6 billion budget deficit not so bad. But some of the news stories leading up to today's announcement made it sound like state government would have to . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:59 PM EDT --
I'll be posting Thursday on an unemployment issue you wouldn't necessarily expect: Civil engineers looking for work.
Over the past couple months and just this week we've had some civil . . .
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April 06, 2009 02:25 PM EDT --
I posted recently on what I thought was an odd circumstance: Civil engineers and architects in Minnesota struggling to find work in this economy.
We'd heard from several engineers and architects . . .
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