“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…
Tag: inflation
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…
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari told Face the Nation last Sunday that if you’re worried about keeping the economy open and growing, you’d…
Moody Analytics says passing the $579-billion “hard” infrastructure bill will do a lot more good for the economy if passed alongside the Democrats’ $3.5-trillion reconciliation…
Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) is still fretting about inflation, but from Bob Mercer’s account of last week’s Teacher Compensation Review Board meeting, it doesn’t sound…
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…