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                    <title><![CDATA[Richard Longworth gives my list a Chicago beatdown]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[He disagreed with plenty. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 28, Dec 2012 15:21</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[The 10 biggest economics stories of 2012 in the Upper Midwest]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[North Dakota's oil boom, labor battles, demographics and farmland prices lead off the list. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 28, Dec 2012 10:24</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota small businesses can tap into state loan program]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Some $15.4 million in Treasury funds came to Minnesota to help encourage small business lending thanks to the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 24, Dec 2012 15:31</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Opening Belz, Dec. 20]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Business links for the day from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the world. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 20, Dec 2012 12:2</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota adds 10,800 jobs in Nov.]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Minnesota has now gained 55,200 jobs in the past year, a growth rate of 2.1 percent, compared with job growth nationally of 1.4 percent during that period. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 20, Dec 2012 12:36</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota posts 8th-fastest personal income growth in U.S.]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Minnesota ranked #8 among states for earnings growth, and the Upper Midwest shows up well in the rankings. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Dec 2012 12:46</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Opening Belz, Dec. 19]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Business links for the day from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the world. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Dec 2012 11:12</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Opening Belz, Dec. 18]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Business links for the day from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the world. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Dec 2012 10:52</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Business links for the day from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the world. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 11, Dec 2012 10:30</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Opening Belz, Dec. 10]]></title>
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                    <pubDate>Mon, 10, Dec 2012 11:1</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Friday's U.S. jobs report will be discouraging, but don't be discouraged]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Expect a bad jobs report tomorrow and sunnier predictions for the December numbers. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 6, Dec 2012 13:36</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota exports rise slightly in third quarter thanks to Canada and China]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Dayton announced in March an initiative designed to double exports from the Twin Cities by 2017. To reach that goal, businesses in the metro area would have to increase exports by nearly 15 percent per year. Exports may be growing, but they aren’t keeping that brisk of a pace. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The company is the poster-child of struggling American paper companies. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 5, Dec 2012 18:1</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Investors cheer Canadian Pacific layoffs]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[And a new focus on its St. Paul railyard may help limit the layoffs' impact in Minnesota. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 5, Dec 2012 16:34</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Canadian Pacific wants to sell its track to coal country]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Canadian Pacific wants to sell 660 miles of what used to be the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern railroad, mostly in South Dakota, the company said Tuesday.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Business links for the day from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the world. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Citing coal weakness, Canadian Pacific shelves expansion into western coal country]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Canadian Pacific said Monday it is shelving plans to extend railroad into the Powder River Basin, coal-mining country just east of the Big Horn Mountains in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Banks and their overseers should work on ways to measure “too big to fail” banks, Narayana Kocherlakota said Friday, even as he said the problem appears to be lessening. ]]></description>
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