This month’s economic indicators are a bit like that—peculiar, but in the context of a global tariff war, even stranger. They provide a fascinating local window into this global story. On the surface, many metrics suggest robust economic health.
This week in 1998, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” topped the UK pop chart. It’s hard to overstate the significance of a song like this. Inspired by (and featured in) the 1997 film Titanic, the song was synonymous with grandiosity, wanderlust, romantic yearning, and the sort of lustful breathlessness of the film’s leading
This week in 1999, the greatest debut single of all time hit #1 on the charts. It changed the course of music history forever and spawned more covers than a king-sized bed in an Airbnb. The lyrics were infectious. The beat was fresh. The song was everything you didn’t see coming and didn’t know you knew you wanted. But you secretly did,
This month’s economic indicators are ready for the holiday season and brimming with a little Jack Frost spirit. The big four economic indicators—wages, job growth, unemployment, and consumer spending—continue to bring good tidings.
Rapid City saw record levels of low unemployment, wages growing twice as fast as the costs of housing (and triple that of overall inflation), and consumer spending last month was over $900 million.
Despite all odds, we’re coasting towards a softer economic landing than anyone predicted.
This month’s economic indicators are rising up to the challenge of its rivals: inflation and interest rates.
This month’s economic indicators are like The Sixth Sense — exciting, dramatic, full of intensity, but with a plot twist that hits you like a gut punch and leaves you never wanting a sequel.
“Walk This Way” was like nothing anyone had ever heard before—an electrifying collaboration that crashed through the boundaries of musical genres. This month’s economic indicators are a lot like that—combining different parts of the economy to create a bit of a hybrid we’ve never seen.
This week in 1967, original bad-boy front-man Jim Morrison and The Doors released "Light My Fire" in the US, eventually reaching Number 1 on the singles chart.