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Editor's Note by Jay Novak

The number of musicians grow while the market shrinks.

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Open Letter from Vance K. Opperman

We All Deserve a Bailout

Please let me know where I can turn in my 8-tracks, lottery tickets, and old newspaper subscriptions. We really need the money.

George Martin of Faegre & Benson

What I Learned...

What George Martin of Faegre & Benson learned about socializing while working in China.

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Jeff Dekko

Personal Finance

by Jeff Dekko
The myth of "The Number" and your retirement.

What I Learned
George Martin of Faegre & Benson

What I Learned...

What George Martin of Faegre & Benson learned about socializing while working in China.

What I Learned

Vicki Stavig chats with Peter Kitchak, Keewaydin Real Estate Advisors president and vintner.

Rob Tautges

What I Learned

Rob Tautges, CEO, HLB Tautges Redpath, Ltd.

Lyle Berman, Chairman and CEO, Lakes Entertainment

What I Learned

Lyle Berman, Chairman and CEO, Lakes Entertainment, Inc.


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Mortgage Market

So What Inning Are We In Now?

Advantus Capital Management's follow-up to its "Subprime Strikeout" white paper from last fall about the residential mortgage market. In this second paper, the authors identify the metrics that will tell us when the worst is over.

Intellectual Property

Reining in Patent Rights

Dorsey & Whitney attorney Paul Ackerman examines the KSR decision and offers an overview.

A Flexible Approach

The IP-only Merchant & Gould law firm presents an analysis of the high court's KSR decision.

Jason Voiovich

The Brain: A smart brand position for Medtronic

It's a brain pacemaker. Perhaps you have heard of it. It has been about a year since most of us got our first look at...

Gary Johnson

Ideas List

Atlantic Monthly recently published their “Ideas of the Year” issue. You’ve seen this concept from other magazines like Time, Popular Science or Technology Review. And, like Time’s Man of the Year selections, these ideas aren’t all good ones, but impactful,...

Gene Rebeck

The World is Still Round

A decade ago, globalization was riding high. When Tom Friedman optimistically declared in his 2005 bestseller that “the world is flat”, many wanted to believe...

Whatsername

Standing in the Gap, Part 1

I spend a good deal of time commiserating with my colleagues and leaders about something called corporate social responsibility. And while its rhetoric swells around this spinning, melting ball of a planet, I am relieved—even encouraged—to hear some of my...

Overheard

"Credit cards. Without credit cards, bankruptcy would be cut in half—less than half."

- Jack Prescott

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