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…
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—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…
Team Trump appears determined to repeal and replace the bull market and the Obama recovery by taxing imports, maybe 5%, maybe 10%. Trump’s advisors and House Republicans are…
Senator John Thune played David Novstrup on national TV yesterday, pretending that taking things away from workers is good for them. Asked by Fox’s Maria Martiromo…
I know a nine-degree day in Aberdeen is not the best day to talk about global warming. I should have posted on climate change on November…
Governor Dennis Daugaard gives his budget address tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1 p.m. in the Capitol. Grandpa Cheap is telling us to brace for a lean year:…
Now that’s she’s running for Governor, Rep. Kristi Noem has probably forgotten her ridiculous campaign pledge to drive 9.1% GDP growth with voodoo economics (the voodoo consisting of…