Budget, Taxation & Economy
Economists: warning about protectionism since Adam Smith, part 3
Tariffs are a bad idea economists have been warning us about for centuries. It was a founding insight to the entire discipline of economics.
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Regulation
New Carolina Journal Online features
The latest Carolina Journal Online parody describes basketball great Michael Jordan’s fight against a bill to name the bobcat as North Carolina’s state cat. John Trump’s Daily Journal laments the…
Health Care
Legislation To Adopt State Cat Has Turned Into Certificate of Need Repeal
Yes, you read that title correctly. A bill that was filed in the House to adopt the bobcat as North Carolina’s official state cat has tuned into a full-blown repeal…
Liberty
The Hornets are back
And with a name change, Charlotte’s current NBA franchise is generating a lot more buzz (sorry) than it ever did when called the Bobcats. For that excitement to continue, the…
Liberty
RIP Charlotte Bobcats
Somewhere out there today Rufus D. Lynx is sending his resume out, seeking alternative employment now that Charlotte’s NBA franchise is replacing him with a big bug. As the Bobcats,…
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Flawed basketball player of the moment
The Bobcat’s Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, who has no shooting range. Or as the Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell put it, while writing on yesterday night’s Bobcats’ collapse: I thought Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was…
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The latest Bobcats fail
It’s really, really hard to be a Bobcats fan — the team is bad in so many different ways and offers so little hope for the future. The latest case…
Liberty
To be or not to be
The Charlotte Hornets again. That is the question. Especially as New Orleans’ NBA team is now officially called the Pelicans. Perhaps MJ will enlighten us soon as to whether what…
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Sacramento Kings to Seattle?
From ESPN: Investor Chris Hansen, who has a deal to build an arena in Seattle to lure an NBA team, has contacted the Maloof family about buying the Sacramento Kings,…
Liberty
A Bobcats surprise
The “Hornets” name may soon be available again for Charlotte’s NBA basketball franchise. The Bobcats becoming the Hornets is not as straightforward as many in this city think it is.…
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Bobcats to play some games in Raleigh or Chapel Hill?
NBA rules allow a team to play two home games away from its home arena. Rick Bonnell reports that the Bobcats are considering doing just that, with two games a…
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More on Bank of America Stadium upgrades
The Charlotte Observer has some new information on the Carolina Panthers’ plans to remodel Bank of America stadium. The actual study the team has commissioned should be done by the…