Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse

Ventings from a guy with an unhealthy interest in budgets, policy, the dismal science, life in the Upper Midwest, and brilliant beverages.

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

ADP shows another month of lost jobs, with small firms getting hammered

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Even though the government's job numbers have been delayed and have yet to catch up from October's and November's shutdown, th...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

As Trump 2.0 continues, US consumers keep feeling worse.

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We’ve seen consumer sentiment get worse in the country as we’ve gotten deeper into 2025 and Trump Administration 2.0, and we found out on...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Jobs data is back! At least thru September

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After last week’s end of the federal government’s shutdown, we are starting to see some of the economic reports that have been long-delayed....
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Trump admits failure on some tariffs, and still BSing about the money they've raised

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Oh, so tariffs aren’t really working out? President Donald Trump is slated to sign an order on Friday reducing tariffs on beef, tomatoes...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

More places get wheel taxes in Wis, but maybe there's a better way to fix the roads

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Although it’s not as rapid an increase as we saw in the 2010s, the Wisconsin Policy Forum noted that wheel taxes in Wisconsin continue to g...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Gas and oil prices going lower, and likely to stay low in 2026.

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Even though we’ve seen gas prices ride a bit of a roller coaster in recent weeks because of outages at refineries and other one-off disrupti...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Trump and Fitz desperately try to change the blame for their GOP idiocy on health care

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Republicans continue to flail in the wake of huge jumps in out-of-pocket costs for Obamacare insurance, and their stupefying refusal to r...
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