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Bismarck-Mandan business leaders who spoke at an economic forum Thursday said they are hoping for a better year. Members of the health care, higher education, service, and oil and gas industries spoke about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year and their thoughts on the future at the Bismarck Mandan Chamber EDC Economic Outlook Forum. The Chamber also presented the results of its Economic Outlook Survey, which saw businesses anticipating better performance in 2021. Karel Sovak, dean of the University of Mary's Gary Tharaldson School of Business, presented the re...

For the past several years I’ve been doing a year-end wrap-up of some of the best books I’ve read during the year. Usually it’s a top 10 list with a few extras thrown in. (One of last year’s honorable mentions was As Bright As Heaven By Susan Meisner. It was more timely than I ever could have imagined, because its topic is the 1918 pandemic. As we live out our own pandemic, I would highly recommend this one again.) This year, I’ve had lots of time to read since there wasn’t much else I could do. (No commuting and many of my regular activities curtailed by COVID-19.) So I’m pres...

W speak. dot frank is going to be very, very seriously changed so the banks can go back to loaning money. >> okay. jeff, you cover the white house now. you covered the democrats during the primary. take the dodd-frank part out of this. just breaking up the big banks, said sounds like smomething you woul have heard bernie sanders say. >> i'm not sure what he was talking about there or what the context was, but it does not seem to me that it is -- he has a populace strain that sent him to office. there's been no sign in this ols that he's going to do that that i can tell. >> tell me what you tho...

Had a chip on his shoulder about cutting a deal with the democrats. he seemed fine with it and he seemed like he wanted to talk about what he's going to do in the next 100 days. we covered the waterfront from north korea to whether you want to break up the big banks. i see some commonalities on them. on north korea he sees his own personal negotiating skills and we know this from his life and business and from his life as a campaigner and early months in the white house that he feels that he personally brings something special to the table in the way he deals with and can bond with people and ...

>> all banks have been under such regulatory scrutiny where they've been forced to literally build capital and build capital and instead of lending capital into their clients and allowing their clients to grow their businesses and hire people and create jobs. they've been taking those reserves, taking that capital and hording it to pay for additional regulation. >> reporter: the president has also vowed he will reveal dot frank and replace it with something else. but that, too, is for down the road. president's bound to keep us busy. >> sandra: of course. john roberts, thank you for all your r...