Prodigal advisor Corey Lewandowski appears to have broken Kristi Noem of her bad habit of claiming South Dakota has the “strongest economy in the nation“,…
Tag: economy
Congressman Dusty Johnson tweeted yesterday that President Joe Biden’s proposal to suspend the gasoline tax is “a terrible idea” that “steals from our roads and…
Governor Kristi Noem would really like to blame President Joe Biden for higher housing costs, and I’d really like to blame Governor Noem, but really,…
Inflation schminflation—rising gas prices won’t hurt South Dakota, as long as we remain our warm and charming selves: Deb Schuetzle, operator of the Hitching Horse…
And again, don’t blame workers and wages for inflation! Down on the farm, a new Purdue study finds that farm wages increased more slowly last year…
I noted in February that corporate profit-taking is driving higher costs for consumers far more than any of the politicians or policies that Kristi Noem…
A Minneapolis Fed article reinforces an economic point I made last month: higher wages for workers aren’t driving inflation. Nonlabor inputs, like raw materials, are…
The excitement about passing a real tax cut for all South Dakotans didn’t last long. Two days after the House passed a two-step reduction of…
Republican legislators are using the prospect of voters’ approval of Medicaid expansion this November as one of their excuses not to cut our regressive sales…
If Kristi Noem really wants to make inflation a campaign issue, maybe she needs to tackle the root causes. President Joe Biden isn’t raising prices;…