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,…
Tag: inflation
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…
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…