We’re working toward repairing two big Trump disasters this week. The House Democrats are restoring NAFTA, which Trump needlessly tore up two years ago. Trade…
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Donald Trump’s used-car salesman hyperbole disgusts me. Yesterday he posted this propaganda bleat to Twitter, in which he stands in front of the White House…
In another sign of confusion over how the South Dakota economy is doing, amidst concerns about low wages and the tariff insult to an already…
The Commerce Department just announced that U.S. gross domestic product grew in our second quarter by 4.1%, the strongest rate since 2014. In other words,…
Every press release from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture notes that agriculture is “a major contributor to South Dakota’s economy” and generates $25.6 billion…
Kristi Noem is right: South Dakota’s economy is stagnating. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, South Dakota and North Dakota were the only states…
The Trump budget banks on 3% economic growth for several years in a row. 3% is a step down from the 6, 5, and 4…
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…
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…
Governing points toward a report by McKinsey & Company that says achieving full gender equality in the U.S. could add $4.3 trillion to U.S. GDP. In…