The free market can’t work when we can’t go to the market. Amazon may be hiring 100,000 extra workers to handle increased demand from online…
Tag: capitalism
Lobbyists or socialists must have gotten to Brock Greenfield. On Tuesday, the Clark Senator quietly withdrew Senate Bill 108, his (actually Frank Kloucek’s, but who’s…
Not found in my Christmas stocking: new bills! Some years the Legislature gets on the stick and pops some bills into the hopper around Christmastime…
Rolling Stone reminds us that one of Donald Trump’s extremist nominees for the Federal Reserve doesn’t think democracy is nearly as important as his opportunity to…
Whoo-hoo—new podcast! In this week’s awesome hour of audio from Dakota Free Press, local music teacher Joe Berns tells us what he learned about the Koch Brothers’ vision…
Musician and thinker Joe Berns of Aberdeen went to the Koch Brothers’ free pizza and propaganda show here in Aberdeen last Thursday. Here’s his report on the event: The…
The Koch Brothers are lying to us again. My morning paper tells me that Americans for Prosperity South Dakota director Ben Lee is coming to Aberdeen Thursday…
Two lazy cliché posts on Dakota War College make clear the continuing disconnect between Republican dogma and South Dakota’s youth. Pat Powers leads off May Day reprinting Governor…
Speaking of income inequality (thank you, Senator Sanders!), Governing offers this clickable map showing that economic growth has outpaced median income growth in every state: From 2000 to…
More from economist Mark Thoma: a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute finds that workers are doing more and not getting paid for it. Over the…