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Pouring cold water on Mamdani’s rent-freeze proposal
Nicole Huyer and Camilla Cort write for the Daily Signal about another bad idea from New York City’s mayor. Solving the housing crisis is a bipartisan issue, but the mayor’s…
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Trump’s Argentina deal labeled a gamble
Editors at National Review Online ponder President Donald Trump’s recent agreement with Argentina. For a president who prides himself on putting America first to throw a massive lifeline to Argentina,…
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Argentina’s ‘miracle’ vindicates free markets
Editors of National Review Online assess a South American economic success story. “Instead of talking about growth at Chinese rates, the world will soon be talking about growth at Argentine…
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Venezuela’s socialist decline highlighted
Tim Padgett reminds Bloomberg Businessweek readers how far Venezuela has fallen from its peak among Latin American countries. A document circulating in Peru, part of a broad political corruption investigation,…
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Greenway key to Gboro developer’s next big project
Front-pager in Saturday’s News & Record on high-profile Greensboro developer and UNC Board of Governors member Marty Kotis’ ambitious project: a $100 million high-rise mixed-use development on a narrow stretch…
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Latin America offers good economics lesson
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek explains how contrasting government economic policies are leading to drastically different results in Latin American countries. There’s a rift in Latin America that is neatly defined…
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US Airways to drop CLT – Rio de Janerio
Come some time early next year. This is a very, very bad sign, as CLT – Rio obviously isn’t even close to being a keeper for the combined carrier. US…
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United Airlines drops Newark – Buenos Aires
Among those in the Cult of Jerry Orr, there is a widespread belief that there will be a substantial increase in international flights from Charlotte, regardless of whether US Airways…
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Just Plain Weird
A UNC professor who’s sitting in an Argentine prison for alleged cocaine smuggling wants the university to give him a raise. No, this evidently isn’t a joke. Read the entire…
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UNC professor’s Argentinian odyssey
Looks as though septuagenarian UNC physics professor Paul Frampton went to Argentina not in search of cocaine, but….. Frampton was arrested Jan. 23 at the international airport in Buenos Aires…
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Sanford Still My Hero, Staff Not So Much
In fact, I love it even more that Gov. Sanford ditched his painfully neurotic staff and bolted for Buenos Aires to decompress. I mean, how perfectly disrespectful it is towards…
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Rare snowfall in Buenos Aires
Meteorologists predict that the cold snap will last for several more days. Bitterly cold weather in May caused some 20 deaths and forced the Argentine authorities to ration supplies as…