Creighton University's Heider College of Business has issued its December 2014 Mid-America Business Conditions Index. Dr. Ernie Goss and his Creighton associations survey purchasing managers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. They index…
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I'm reading up on the Mid-American States Purchasing Economy Survey Report, a survey of supply managers in nine states conducted monthly by Dr. Ernie Goss and associates at Creighton University's Heider College of Business. Our local press like to blurb…
Politico's Michael Grunwald notes that we don't get Pulitzers for writing good news. But on this Christmas, Grunwald says America is looking not just un-Pulitzerly, but more Bricksburgally awesome than many people expected: Mitt Romney promised to bring unemployment down…
The obvious solution to South Dakota's vo-tech workforce shortage is higher wages. But if our business and political leaders are committed to ignoring that option, perhaps we can consider another solution: immigrants. The Pew Charitable Trusts just issued a report…
Arizona/South Dakota billionaire T. Denny Sanford is using $25 million of his usury-gotten fortune to keep South Dakota state government from coming up with more of its own money to address workforce development. How very nice. I suppose it's impolite…
How does a practical Republican react to an underperforming state economy and Governor Dennis Daugaard's blasé budget proposal? John Tsitrian says drop the political posturing, prioritize practical economics, and expand Medicaid: Given Daugaard's cautiously reactive tone when discussing the upcoming…
A couple of charts in state economist Jim Terwilliger's presentation to the South Dakota Banking Commission last Friday explain part South Dakota's doldrummy fiscal outlook. From 1997 to 2007, farm income averaged about 6% of South Dakota's personal income. When…