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South Dakota Credit Card Debt Low; Sioux Falls Credit Scores High

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…

Fiscal Conservative Noem Carries More Debt than Leftist Blogger

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…

Premier Bankcard Fleecing Americans: Good Riddance to Loan Sharks

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…

Credit Card Execs Blameless, Says Corporate Media

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…

South Dakotans Worse Than Average at Money Management

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."…

Onward Christian Legislators… Against Usury!

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…