An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
Tag: economy
Apparently South Dakota isn’t the only state where employers and policymakers are capable of ignoring the obvious. Employers nationwide are responding to 3.9% unemployment by trying…
I noted last week that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Billie Sutton’s stated opposition to a state income tax cedes too much ground to the Republican fiscal…
My local paper keys in on one dire phrase that our Congressional delegation used in its please-stop-the-beatings letter to Donald Trump, “the brink of economic collapse” facing…
In for a penny, in for a pound—Donald Trump says he’s considering tariffs on everything China sells us: President Donald Trump has indicated that he…
Governor Dennis Daugaard isn’t doing any better at offering a coherent political response to the Trump tariffs than his pal Dusty Johnson. At last week’s…
While our current members of Congress wring their hands over Donald Trump’s destructive trade war, Democratic candidate Tim Bjorkman yields the floor to South Dakota…
After a baseball break last week, Patrick Lalley opened his KSOO mic to me again yesterday afternoon to spend twenty minutes talking about tariffs and…
The ag-industrial lobbyists at the Farm Bureau are calling on their members to call Congress and get the Trump tariffs off their backs: Bureau President…