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TRANSITIONS: Keep Boomers happy, watch the money roll in


Well, there goes my million-dollar idea. Some guy in Las Vegas is operating “Dig This,” a theme park for adults who always wanted to operate heavy machinery. For a hefty admission price, people can tool …

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OUR VIEW: Legislature to business- Maybe later


Business interests had reason to expect a lot from the Iowa Legislature in 2011, and Republican leaders encouraged them to do so. And yet, despite an extraordinarily long session and a bulldog approach to negotiation …

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GUEST OPINION: Real patriots pay their taxes


Some of our nation’s biggest corporations are planning a tax holiday, and they want you to pick up the tab.

You already pay for their routine tax avoidance through the use of tax havens in …

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OUR VIEW: Best plan for budget was shelved


Short-term solutions are no way to handle problems, Thomas Hoenig told a Des Moines audience last week. Hoenig is the retiring president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a 20-year veteran of …

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TRANSITIONS: Only six months until the tax fight resumes


The Swirling Vortex of Doom was a bizarre occurrence in Louisiana in 1980, when a drilling rig on a shallow lake accidentally punched a hole into a salt mine. Before the excitement ended, a river’s …

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OUR VIEW: Knapp’s sentence is too harsh


Bob Knapp paid a state record $500,000 fine for his recklessness in the Equitable Building renovation. It was proper to hit him hard for ignoring the rules about asbestos removal, especially in the heart of …

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History tells us what inflation is like


Business leaders, investors and consumers are, for the first time in decades, facing price uncertainty. Investor and media fascination with commodities has given way to very real concerns about accelerating inflation rates. Businesses are already …

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TRANSITIONS: The Gloom Decade


It didn’t bother me when a highly scientific survey in North Korea found that China is the happiest nation on Earth. North Korea narrowly lost out on the top spot when a shortage of badminton …

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OUR VIEW: Eliminate the 401(k)? No way


The good news is that the federal government is looking everywhere, and maybe even seriously, for ways to improve its balance sheet. But the process will bring some bad news, such as Congress’ interest in …

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GUEST OPINON: Plan to navigate midlife change


If the average life expectancy today in the West is around 80 (and still rising), and 53 is the median age of people in the Baby Boom generation (born between 1946 and 1964), this means …