Capital One is hiring 175 new employees in Sioux Falls. Those new hires will bring Capital One's local workforce from the 400 employees it acquired from HSBC 18 months ago to over 1,000. That's funny: I seem to remember someone…
Posts tagged as “credit cards”
In our conversation about South Dakota's nation-leading multiple-job-holding rate, Joseph Thompson brought up South Dakota's low credit card debt. Indeed, we upper Midwesterners are relatively restrained in our plastic payments: Lowest Credit Card Debt States Q2 2011 Iowa $3,731.00 North…
Denise Ross posts Rep. Kristi Noem's asset disclosure and finds that our fiscally conservative Congresswoman is carrying over $20,000 in credit card debt. Uff da: I'll bet the Noem family is enjoying those nice consumer credit card protections the Democrats…
Posts like this, questioning the corporate media, are why KELO dropped Dr. Newquist and other freethinkers from its blogroll. The inimitable Dr. Newquist beats the living daylight out of Premier Bankcard's effort to blame its layoffs on government regulations. Newquist…
Has anyone else noticed that when KELO's anchorpeople step out from behind the Big News desk, they do the worst journalism? First Angela Kennecke gags us with her puff piece on Kristi Noem's roast. (And seriously, Kristi: you get a…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has published results of its nationwide Financial Capability Study. KELO follows the order of the press release for South Dakota and puts the good news first: we South Dakotans are third best at "financial literacy."…
On the off chance that our Republican state legislators get a little too excited about their supermajorities and go all theocratic on us, I hope they'll apply their Christian principles to South Dakota's usury industry. Perhaps all of our legislators…