Know what else will cost more due to Trump’s unnecessary trade war? Quilts and fleece blankies. Baum Textile Mills of New Jersey tells its wholesale…
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Kristi Noem runs hot and cold on the economy. In April, she said South Dakota’s economy is “stagnant“: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth,…
G. Mark Mickelson may want to add another service to his CAFO-consulting portfolio: guidance on how to control stink, noise, and bugs so they don’t…
An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
Farm Forum editor Stan Wise is glad the Trump Administration is making taxpayers shell out welfare for farmers to pay for the trade war, but……
The Commerce Department just announced that U.S. gross domestic product grew in our second quarter by 4.1%, the strongest rate since 2014. In other words,…
You know how Republicans like to say that we Democrats created the welfare state to trap an entire class of Americans permanently poor and dependent…
My local paper keys in on one dire phrase that our Congressional delegation used in its please-stop-the-beatings letter to Donald Trump, “the brink of economic collapse” facing…
In for a penny, in for a pound—Donald Trump says he’s considering tariffs on everything China sells us: President Donald Trump has indicated that he…
Governor Dennis Daugaard isn’t doing any better at offering a coherent political response to the Trump tariffs than his pal Dusty Johnson. At last week’s…