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…
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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…
Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) gets to have his inflation cake and eat it, too. Last May he expressed grave concern about inflation driven by federal…
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…
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;…
South Dakota needs more affordable housing, but it’s spent less than a tenth of the federal and state money set aside to help low-income South…
“South Dakota is not successful because of government,” said Kristi Noem as she took a break from her coast-to-coast Presidential campaign to deliver a budget…
Inflation is an economic phenomenon, and economic phenomena are influenced by all participants in the economy. It thus makes sense that, as Neil Irwin writes…
The Wall Street Journal looks at the Consumer Price Index data for October and finds that prices rose the most here in the Midwest: The Bureau…