Monday, July 21, 2025

In budget deal, long-overdue help for Madison and other towns that can't tax state buildings

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In an update on an issue I discussed at some length last September, the recently-signed Wisconsin state budget includes a long-overdue bo...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Consumers spent more at stores in June, but homebuilding sector is in trouble

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After a couple of rough months of consumer spending, it looks like retail sales rebounded in June. Retail sales rose 0.6% in June from ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Inflation watch is...sort of back? But billions in tariffs still aren't affecting prices much

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After Tuesday's release of the CPI for June, can we say that inflation watch is back? The consumer price index, a broad-based meas...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Evers wanted to stop property tax hikes for schools, seniors. WisGOPs chose to let it happen

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Wanted to go a bit deeper on the state budget and what's coming for property taxes. The biggest chunk of your property tax bill in W...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Headline says US jobs stay strong in June. But underneath the headline, not so much?

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Wanted to catch up to the most recent US jobs report, as that's been an area which is still holding up as other parts of the economy ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Hospital assessment stuff - and how it led to Derrick Van Orden's latest idiocy

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A mundane funding mechanism that involves taxing Wisconsin hospitals has led to quite a lot of crazy stuff in our state's politics o...
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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Tax Scam 2.0 by the numbers

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There's a lot of individual items I could go over with GOP Tax Scam 2.0 coming out of DC, and I can discuss those in other individ...