Sunday, March 30, 2025

What to look for in Tuesday's election - trends and turnouts

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You may have heard there's a big statewide election here in Wisconsin on Tuesday. God knows it's hard to avoid in these parts if y...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Incomes, spending OK for February, but a lot bad signs for the future

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We’d seen several economic reports that indicated February wasn’t going to have the bad overall numbers that we saw in January. And that con...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Upon further review - less manufacturing and more service gigs in Wisconsin

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Wanted to catch up with the Wisconsin jobs report from last week, which gave the numbers for January 2025. On the surface, not bad, but...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

A tale of 2 tax plans

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2 recent releases spell it out well, both at the state and federal level, when it comes to tax plans. On the national side, here's w...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Lots of imports, no tariff consistency, and few orders to match? Not a good combo

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The country's manufacturing situation was already struggling before Donald Trump took office, with over 100,000 jobs lost in the sect...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Jobs report and Powell's words mask that worse numbers are likely coming soon

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The monthly jobs report always get headlines and notice in both the financial and economic media. But this was especially true for the r...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Federal budget update - still nothing close to decided

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Not that this should surprise anyone, but when Republicans say their budget plans don't cut Medicaid, they are claiming something that...