Dakota Free Press

Artificial intelligence—or at least corporate enthusiasm for it—is doing us some good. In Staff Report 686 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, four Federal Reserve economists find, among other things, that AI-driven investment boom

Cato Institute economist Scott Lincicome posts some charts busting White House propaganda about tariffs and manufacturing. Of particular interest is Lincicome’s finding that since November 2024 industrial production, still d...

It’s bad enough that Trump is whacking South Dakota’s livestock producers with another anti-American,

Nobody but Trump’s foreign cronies thinks his vague plan to cancel ta...

Independent journalism and South Dakota’s collective intelligence are poorer this week, having lost smart writer Tom Lawrence:

Tom passed on August 21, a few months shy of seven years in partnership with me on this ...