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Les Linz: For such a time as this

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By Les Linz

Wendy Cartwright: Midwest Wonders … One year

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By Wendy Cartwright

Mickey Kim: Overconfidence plagues both “bracketologists” and investors

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By Mickey Kim Guest columnist This is a great time of the year.  Warren Buffett’s always insightful annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway is published...

Michael Leppert: Being in the minority doesn’t mean you can’t get things done

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It can be tough to be a minority of any kind. We talk about that toughness in cultural terms regularly in America. Whether it is a minority religion, gender or race, being outnumbered is rarely meaningless or easy.

Michael Hicks: Are we in the early stages of a long economic boom?

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We are now 48 months since the start of the COVID downturn, which was the deepest economic shock since the Great Depression. We saw monthly unemployment hit 14.8%, with weekly estimates rising above 20%. By comparison, peak unemployment nationally during the Great Depression rose to just over 24% in the tough summer of 1933.

The corporatization of medicine not good for patients, doctors

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The corporatization of medicine. It can’t be good for patients. I know it’s not good for physicians.

Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Democrats, Republicans could learn from Libertarians

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My Republican and Democratic friends could learn a lot from my Libertarian friends.