Donald Trump has claimed credit for unemployment figures and job creation in January, February, and March of this year. Donald Trump is full of crap (we’ve discussed…
Tag: economy
As investor enthusiasm for Trumpocracy fades, South Dakota continues to see no Trump bump in its economy. The Legislature’s Executive Board received an update Tuesday that shows…
Senator John Thune held a one-hour town hall for about 90 interested citizens here in Aberdeen today. I’ll post video of the fourteen questions he fielded shortly,…
But No Statewide Depression Yet? The Black Hills Knowledge Network notices new Bureau of Economic Analysis data that show personal income in South Dakota grew $480 million last…
Dakota Marketing Coalition, National Farmers Organization, and South Dakota Farmers Union brought a couple of speakers to Aberdeen Monday evening to talk about the chronically…
Some of my northeastern legislators appear to be reading the blog! Following my post on the harmful impacts a Trump-tweet-trade war with Mexico could have on…
Your economic puzzle for the day comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds that, in the third quarter of 2016, South Dakota had…
—Knock knock! —Who’s there? —Not Mexican corn buyers, if one Mexican Senator gets his way: Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in…
The latest expression of the South Dakota Legislature’s preference of fear and bigotry over data gets a committee hearing this morning. Senate Bill 115, the recycled anti-transgender potty bill,…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t alone in sluggish tax revenue growth. Governing says that, even as we squeeze the last bits of growth out of the Obama economy before…