Schafer: If you’re near retirement, some tips for the hard choices coming your way

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Schafer: If you’re near retirement, some tips for the hard choices coming your way

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic pounded the economy, research had shown that maybe four out of 10 Americans retired before they had planned. This fact comes from Scott Wardell, an…

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Schafer: Delivery business is dodgy all around, especially these days

It was an item typical of internet publishing, not quite news yet still fascinating, all about Grubhub pricing. It described a Chicago pizza place that delivered through the app-based delivery…

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Schafer: People in Minnesota businesses are solving problems fast

There were classes offered all day Tuesday by the Power House, a fitness gym with locations in Woodbury, St. Louis Park and St. Paul. The three gyms, of course, are…

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Schafer: How one Twin Cities business owner views the path through the downturn

A second once-in-a-lifetime economic downturn is underway when it might seem like the last one just ended. What became known as the Great Recession of the 2000s was officially over…

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