Tuesday, September 8, 2026

State of Working Wisconsin - gaining ground, but higher earners are still behind

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Wanted to mention a few things on the recently released State of Working Wisconsin report for 2026. It's put out by High Road Strate...
Monday, September 7, 2026

Another month of more output, and businesses using high prices to take profits over paying workers

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As Summer winds down, it seems like the overall US economy is still holding up. For example, the Institute for Supply Management’s report...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

August jobs report may lead to rate hikes, but also isn't as great as you might think

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It was another jobs Friday, which came a week after an initial benchmark indicated that job growth through March had been overstated by 79,...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Some ramblings about Crowley and Tiffany surplus plans

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I saw a note the other day on what Tom Tiffany and David Crowley might do with the $3 billion or so that is projected to be in the stat...
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Monday, August 31, 2026

No biggie that Tiffany didn't pay taxes. The biggie is how his donors duck taxes

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As WisGOP desperately tries to talk taxes as some kind of attack against David Crowley and Milwaukee (it’s dishonest BS, but we won’t get in...

Severe Wisconsin weather events come with a cost. This time for WisDOT.

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Back in May, the state sent out $16.9 million in disaster assistance funding to deal with repairs and other damages that accompanied specif...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

US job growth even weaker than we thought, but Wisconsin may be revised to the good side

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We had seen job growth slow down for much of 2025 and some of 2026, but we got new information this week that shows it was probably eve...