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IowaBiz Blog: Is your name Buffet?

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TRANSITIONS: Basketball, accelerated


The Grinnell College men’s basketball team plays as if its basketball-playing license were about to expire, so no time to waste.

As if the ball will explode if the pace of the game drops below …

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IowaBiz Blog: What your business culture says about your business

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IowaBiz Blog: Are you on your customer’s list?

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IowaBiz Blog: It’s time for joy, family… and to make deductible payments for related parties!

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OUR VIEW: Transaction tax should get a look


Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, both Democrats, recently proposed a “Robin Hood” tax on trades of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments, saying it could raise $350 billion in the course …

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GUEST OPINION: Consider the ‘misery multiplier’


Though Iowa in general escaped the worst of the housing and commercial property bubble and crash, we had plenty of our own unpleasant occurrences coupled with our own homegrown scoundrels and scandals.

The difference between …

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TRANSITIONS: Fresh, tasty sculptures


One time, I was in an old office building in downtown Des Moines, accompanied by the architect who had helped turn it into apartments. As I looked out the windows of one unit and saw …

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IowaBiz Blog: What will 2012 bring?

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IowaBiz Blog: Workstations are dropping their panels