Comcast’s well-documented history of contemptuous treatment of its customers reportedly is coming back to haunt it in its quest for approval of a merger with Time-Warner. Gee, isn’t karma a female dog? Unfortunately, little of the public discussion goes beyond…
Don’t get greedy, Minnesota farmers
Let me offer a bit of friendly advice to Minnesota farmers: Don’t get greedy, folks! I say this in response to a bill recently introduced in the Legislature that would create yet another special treatment in taxation of farm real…
Capital gains and the tax question
In proposing changes to taxes on capital gains, President Barack Obama raised an important issue, in terms of both economic efficiency and societal fairness. The issue strikes home in Minnesota, where thousands of long-time shareholders of Medtronic face a huge…
Policy change has broad impact
The financial furor over the Swiss National Bank’s abrupt abandonment of fixing the value of the Swiss franc relative to the euro largely has died. The hedge funds whose managers made spectacularly wrong bets are being wound down. Swiss companies…