There seems to be renewed interest in banning foreign adversaries from owning US farmland. For those interested, I wrote a primer about the topic last year. Bottom line: adversaries do own some but very little. minneapolisfed.org/article/2024/f…
www.minneapolisfed.org Foreign investor or foreign adversary? | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Real estate investors from China, Russia, and other countries are target of new state laws Tu-Uyen Tran
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The child care business model has been described as "broken," implying the market isn't working as well as hoped. So I was interested to learn at a recent @1stchildrens conference about market interventions by local govts in rural MN. 1/13
Foreigners have bought more forest land in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: mlive.com/public-interes… Is that a bad thing? 1/2
One of the polls at @MinneapolisFed's MN State Fair booth asked what people valued most in a job other than pay. It's amazing how many people chose "work-life balance." That's answer D in the photo. I asked people why. More below. 1/12
One of my colleagues mentioned that the railroad bridge between Ranier MN and Fort Frances ON was closed because of some damage. Turns out that's a pretty important bridge! 1/3