Bob Mercer notes the latest economic metrics from the Bureau of Finance and Management. They’re all bad. Job openings advertised online across South Dakota have…
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The coronavirus and our necessary public health responses are having significant economic impacts. Not all are bad. $1.77-per-gallon gasoline at Cenex is a nice break…
Not everyone can work from home. Smithfield can’t crank out wieners from 3,700 workers‘ kitchens (but we shouldn’t worry about protecting Smithfield from death and…
So I get done writing up a plan for Governor Noem to pay landowners to relieve the glut of unsellable pigs, and the next thing…
It took businesses hit by coronavirus less than two weeks to drain the $349-billion Paycheck Protection Program. Those loans were supposed to go to small…
Molded Fiber Glass has become the second major Aberdeen employer to report a case of coronavirus among its workforce. The wind turbine blade plant, which…
[Original concept by Gary Larson; text from Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl, COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative White Paper 6: “Why We Must Test…
Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan warned that shutting down the Smithfield Sioux Falls plant to stanch the worst coronavirus outbreak in America would bring “severe,…
Lest you think Donald Trump will get us out of the coronavirus recession, please think again: his inherent and obvious characteristics—inability to plan, communicate, or…