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…
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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…
Republicans keep misattributing inflation to President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for working to continue the government spending Republicans supported last year to save the…
I love it when John Tsitrian talks economics. The independent Rapid City blogger writes on South Dakota Standard that major economic numbers are swinging positive, leaving…
Senator John Thune keeps crying about inflation. Today’s inflation report may dry those tears—inflation slowed in July, signaling price increases have peaked: U.S. consumer prices…