Today we’ll be talking with our guest and business columnist at the Star Tribune, Lee Schafer.  Named the best business columnist by American Business Editors and Writers, Lee was a reporter at Investors Business Daily, the Real Estate Journal and Corporate Report before spending  15 years in the business community, most recently as a consultant on mergers and acquisitions.  He returned to his journalism roots in 2012. Lee is a frequent speaker, and has covered a range of issues from complex tax consequences of mergers,  Federal Reserve policy and  health care economics - as well as the very personal challenges of small business owners.  

Lee is a  graduate of Macalester College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University — and he is one of my personal highly trusted sources. 

Finally, in  full disclosure, Lee and I were business partners in a financial and market research firm from 2002 - 2007, a business we formed as equal partners on the basis of mutual trust.