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Could be worse: Minneapolis Fed puts unemployment at median for postwar recessions

By Chris Steller | 01.10.09 | 10:57 am

Leave it to a state in the middle of the continent, where extremes of any kind (except weather) are frowned upon, to reassure the world that the country’s current joblessness is right where it should be — at the…

You want definitive? The Global Electoral College has spoken

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11.03.08 | 8:19 am

The Economist has given all 195 of the world’s countries a say in the outcome of tomorrow’s presidential election with its Global Electoral College. Here’s how it works, as explained by The Economist: “As in America, each…