Minnesota bankers’ banker Ben Eskierka (anagram: Banker is Eek!) is a funny guy. In his presentation to the South Dakota Banking Commission last week warning them that…
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Wind turbines and federal checks have saved South Dakota’s economy from tanking and helped Governor Noem fabricate a mostly unearned budget surplus. But the Governor’s…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during her Senate confirmation hearing last week that we can’t afford not to incur more debt to fight coronavirus and the…
Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
Whatever the experts say, do the opposite—such appears to be Donald Trump’s plan for the remainder of his time in the White House. Yesterday morning,…
Donald Trump is, in the most generous interpretation, exaggerating when he claims to have delivered “the greatest economy in the history of our country“: Trump…
Last week Bob Mercer had the guts to point out Governor Kristi Noem’s bald-faced lie about South Dakota’s job recovery during the coronavirus pandemic. In…
Governor Kristi Noem goes on Fox News again, this time to tell Laura Ingraham and her national audience that we all need to be less…
No more coronavirus excuses: as the feds cut off the $600 unemployment checks that have been helping millions of out-of-work Americans survive the pandemic recession,…
Coronavirus delivers a big hit to Sioux Falls downtown development as the Lloyd Companies delays breaking ground on its $200-million project to convert the old…