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By Russell Korinek For WisBusiness.com Milwaukee-based Manpower Inc. chairman and CEO Jeff Joerres scoffed at notions that foreign markets were somehow immune or “decoupled” from the U.S. economic recession and blamed poor risk management for the recent market slide. “Risk was disregarded, and terrible decisions were made,” Joerres said of the path chosen by financial institutions leading up to today's economic...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Wisconsin has a long history of using wind-energy to pump water on the state’s plentiful farms and dairies -- but not to produce electricity for the grid. That changed a decade ago, when two big wind turbines were installed by four utilities near Green Bay as a demonstration project for the state’s Public Service Commission.  ...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday the state deficit could reach more than $3 billion in the next biennial budget if a national recession continues into 2010 as pundits predict. "Our economic outlook in this state is changing with the national economy," Doyle said. "We don't know where the bottom is for the national...