Evan Ramstad
Deputy Business Editor and Columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune
business columnist @startribune; likes kimchi fries, sundubu, mapo tofu, lefse, steak.
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4 days ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
Gov. Tim Walz at the Capitol last month. The governor and the Legislature have so far not completed their mandate in the state Constitution to write a new state budget for the upcoming biennium. (Renée Jones Schneider)
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6 days ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
A couple of weeks ago at the public library in Maplewood, tech consultants May Yang-Her and her husband Dao Her were teaching digital marketing to Hmong business owners when May asked how many had used AI to translate something. Nearly everyone had, and the class came alive with the business owners describing moments when ChatGPT and other AI applications accurately handled the Hmong language. "It has come a long way," May said.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
Near the end of a serious and emotional day, Houston White Jr. took a quick measure of the audience he was about to address in his north Minneapolis coffee shop. Some speakers before him ran a little long - the schedule was an hour behind - and so White asked the 30 or so attendees how they were holding up. "It's not going to take too long," he said, pulling out several pages of notes with a smile.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
The state's two largest public companies - UnitedHealth Group and Target - are in crisis. UnitedHealth recalled its previous top executive to turn things around, while Target's recovery is in the hands of the leading candidate to succeed its current chief. Several more of the state's biggest names are struggling in ways unseen since the pandemic five years ago - and making big moves as a result.
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2 weeks ago |
mankatofreepress.com | Evan Ramstad
So many people think big companies have so much money. Even Donald Trump. Over the weekend, the president sounded like a full-on anti-corporate populist leftie after executives at Walmart, the nation’s biggest company by revenue, warned they would have to raise prices because of tariffs Trump imposed on goods from other countries. Trump said Walmart should just “eat” the higher costs resulting from his tariffs and suggested the retailer’s profits were already big enough.
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