Guest Post: Twin Cities economy growing in spite of geographic disadvantages

That Minnesota does so well is in spite of its location, not because of it. Running an economy from Portland or Seattle is like beginning the game on second base.

By adambelz

September 22, 2014 — 2:39pm

I got this interesting email in response to a turn-of-the-screw story on the Twin Cities passing Detroit in annual GDP:

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