Lumber prices are coming back down, but prices for used cars and energy and lots of other stuff bounced up in June, raising the Consumer…
Posts tagged as “inflation”
Republicans like Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) have been stirring false fears that the Biden Administration’s economic recovery efforts are causing drastic inflation. Just look at…
Partisan fearmonger Senator Jim Bolin must be excited to see his dire warnings of inflation gain some support from current economic data showing prices rising…
I didn’t hear Republican legislators grousing about all the free money the Governor handed out to her business pals from last year’s federal stimulus money.…
The Comprehensive Annual Finance Report for Fiscal Year 2018 reports that we spent over $119 million to cover all of our state employees’ health care…
I learn from a Bob Mercer tweet that Hutchinson County is thinking about replacing its 1881 courthouse (the oldest functioning courthouse in South Dakota). Built for…
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…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t alone in sluggish tax revenue growth. Governing says that, even as we squeeze the last bits of growth out of the Obama economy before…
A nickel last time, a dime this time: the Department of Labor has announced that South Dakota’s minimum wage will rise to $8.65 an hour on January…