Opponents of the proposed 85th Street Walmart on the south edge of Sioux Falls have announced a petition drive to refer the city's necessary rezoning decision to a public vote. The Save Our Neighborhood folks take little interest in the…
Posts tagged as “economics”
If you're feeling economical this fine summer morning, read finance professor Noah Smith's evaluation of six major conservative arguments about the 2007–2009 recession and the recovery. Smith finds all six mostly wrong: Fannie, Freddie, and the Community Reinvestment Act caused…
Senator John Thune has contended that our national debt puts us at risk of an economic train wreck. He has cited the 90% debt-to-GDP ratio as a "tipping point" for... well... some kind of trouble. (Our current national debt-to-GDP ratio…
A sad postscript to our Monday discussion of rural population drain and economic development: Gale Pifer reports that Chester Hardware has closed. Owner Denny Benson, grandson of Chester Hardware founder Emil Benson, says he loved the work and the interaction…
Among the numerous impacts the Keystone XL pipeline will have on South Dakota, TransCanada's expansion of tar sands transmission capacity needs a new 76-mile transmission line strung from the Big Bend Dam at Fort Thompson south and west to Highway…
Back in October, I responded to a reader's proposal for a flat income tax with this defensive of progressive tax rates with the following argument: Progressive tax rates are not punishment of success. They are recognition of the proportionately greater…
Mike McDowell can't write his way out of a paper bag, but I appreciate his sharing this graph (though not the link thereto—bad blogger!) from BusinessWeek that shows why we don't need to drill, baby, drill... or that maybe we…