Speaking of GDP, I glanced at this chart from the St. Louis Fed showing South Dakota’s annual gross domestic product from 1997 through 2024: Notice…
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At the Watertown Chamber’s Farm Business Banquet November 20, Governor Larry Rhoden felt the need to repeat the agriganda that agriculture is South Dakota’s number…
Northern Plains News points us toward an Economic Policy Institute report on the necessary role immigration plays in preserving America’s economic growth. Short form: as…
South Dakota tied New Hampshire in June for the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, 1.8%. Governor Kristi Noem says yay Freedom and Work Ethic,…
The South Dakota Department of Transportation’s draft Carbon Reduction Strategy includes na interesting graph showing the “intuitively obvious” correlation between gross state product and vehicle…
The Davison County Commission will discuss at tonight’s meeting a new economic development plan for the next 20 years. Chapter 7, on the economy of…
My Friday post on South Dakota’s non-unique work ethic got me thinking about how we might actually measure work ethic. One measure of work is…
Governor Kristi Noem’s latest Friday propaganda piece, fatuously titled “Making the Best State in the Nation Even Better”, refers to “our-record-breaking economy”. So what kind…
John Tsitrian contributes the latest evidence that Governor Kristi Noem’s frequently repeated claim that South Dakota has “the strongest economy in America” is flat wrong:…
The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina ranks our country’s 50 largest cities by economic growth rates. The 50 extended…