Mr. President! Good darn call! After maybe a few too many years of deliberation, President Barack Obama came to the conclusion to which Dakota Rural Action and…
Tag: economy
Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Index continues to find broad economic pessimism among supply managers from North Dakota to Arkansas. Institute for Economic Inquiry director Ernie Goss says…
GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated in Wednesday night’s debate in Boulder that he’ll cut taxes $10 trillion without increasing the deficit, thanks to the fact that…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…
Various business closures around the state have raised concerns about too-tight labor supply. But the announcement that Dakota Lodging is closing the 51-year-old Aberdeen Ramada Inn appears to reflect too…
I’m finally getting through Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. Among other enlightening points, Piketty notes in his fourteenth chapter that the increase in the share of national wealth held…
Speaking of income inequality (thank you, Senator Sanders!), Governing offers this clickable map showing that economic growth has outpaced median income growth in every state: From 2000 to…