Hey, Kristi Noem! If America is enjoying a “tidal wave” of economic growth, why can’t America afford to support its own values and international reputation…
Tag: economy
Donald Trump’s used-car salesman hyperbole disgusts me. Yesterday he posted this propaganda bleat to Twitter, in which he stands in front of the White House…
In another sign of confusion over how the South Dakota economy is doing, amidst concerns about low wages and the tariff insult to an already…
Know what else will cost more due to Trump’s unnecessary trade war? Quilts and fleece blankies. Baum Textile Mills of New Jersey tells its wholesale…
Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender is blaming the bad farm economy for his having to deny $1.5 million in city budget requests: “It’s a year…
Kristi Noem runs hot and cold on the economy. In April, she said South Dakota’s economy is “stagnant“: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth,…
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…
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…