Economy

“Thermometers don’t care who’s in office,” said Dan Vimont, a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “By undercutting our ability to monitor and assess the current state of our world, we are disadvantaging ourselves economically, and we’re disadvantaging ourselves in our national security as well.” 

A brewery on the banks of the Milwaukee River hosted a roundtable discussion between tool distributors, farmers, roofers, craft brewers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday.

The shifting rollout of Trump’s tariffs has made it hard for manufacturers to plan for the future. 

Officials in Milwaukee want to pass a city ordinance that would ban the sale of hookah products to anyone under the age of 21.

The latest data shows producers intend to put a lot fewer acres of soybeans in the ground, amid retaliatory tariffs from China and higher production costs.

“The sooner this can conclude, the sooner that the entire strategy plays out and we end up with whatever the result will be, the better,” Johnson told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”

After announcing a major workforce reduction at the beginning of the year, Air Wisconsin is planning another round of layoffs affecting more than 100 people.

Milwaukee-based finance writer Emily Guy Birken says recent stock market fluctuations are unlike anything she’s seen, but there are still ways to prepare for retirement.

A new bipartisan bill aims to incentivize housing developments in rural Wisconsin.

As the stock markets around the world have shown, changes to tariffs have far-reaching effects, such as in northwest Wisconsin, with the Port of Duluth-Superior being a major import and export hub.