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Minneapolis toymaker keeps on truckin' but without Groovy Girls
Manhattan Toy retires doll, but hopes to duplicate its popularity.
Minnesota Blue Cross scrambles to boost cyberdefenses
Protecting its 2.8 million users' info is a top priority, the insurer says, and "efforts are ongoing."
New leader of Minnesota employer health group talks drug costs and improving access to mental health care
Mamie Segall, a longtime health care executive, was named this month as president of the Bloomington-based Minnesota Health Action Group.
Falling life spans show U.S. economy failing many
Life expectancy stopped increasing in the United States in 2010 and has been decreasing since 2014.
Online shopping is growing, but it isn't creating jobs
Online retailers simply haven't created enough jobs to make up for the stagnation in the rest of the sector.
Narrowing gender wage gap in Minnesota depends on where you live
Minneapolis, but not the state of Minnesota, is one of the top-ranked places for earnings equity among genders.
An outside investor jumps into the Bremer legal fracas
A new front opens in the St. Paul foundation's fight over the future of the bank it owns.
Minnesota farmers not the only producers angry over Trump's costly China trade war
St. Paul speaker manufacturer Dan Digre, who hasn't voted for a Democrat for president for 40 years, has had it with Trump's trade war.
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Lee Schafer
Falling life spans show U.S. economy failing many

Life expectancy stopped increasing in the United States in 2010 and has been decreasing since 2014.
Neal St. Anthony
Minnesota farmers not the only producers angry over Trump's costly China trade war

St. Paul speaker manufacturer Dan Digre, who hasn't voted for a Democrat for president for 40 years, has had it with Trump's trade war.
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Little-noticed home buying risk — a city's financial problems
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Another year of hedge funds not earning their keep
Aimed at well-heeled investors, their performance has failed to surpass the broader market in recent years
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In writing, you can break the rules — but only if it works
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Business bookshelf: 'Goliath' is entertaining if not substantive review of anti-capitalist history
‘Goliath’ Matt Stoller, Simon & Schuster, 588 pages, $29.99. Woodrow Wilson’s pick for the Supreme Court in 1916 was Louis Brandeis, a jurist whose…
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5 money hacks hiding in your wallet
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ApplianceSmart files for bankruptcy
ApplianceSmart, once based in Minnesota, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.