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From Carolina Journal: Since January 2016, the University of North Carolina system has had two “permanent” presidents and two interim leaders (including current Interim President Dr. Bill Roper). In recent…
Look who makes an appearance Dan Way’s CJ cover story on possible legal problems involving North Carolina’s state employee pension plan: Siedle conducted a preliminary forensics study on the North…
Ray Gronberg of the Durham-Herald Sun has an insightful report on the May 20 meeting of the search committee for the next president of the University of North Carolina. The…
A $642 billion federal budget deficit is better than a $1.4 trillion deficit. How much better? The latest Bloomberg Businessweek sets out to answer the question and includes at least…
Does high government debt hurt economic growth? Consider this recent Bloomberg Businessweek report. “Growth in a Time of Debt,”, a 2010 study by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth…
… Bloomberg Businessweek does. The magazine’s latest cover story focuses on former UNC President and two-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles, his Republican sidekick Alan Simpson, and their ongoing…
You’re right — not much. That didn’t stop Bloomberg Businessweek from making the comparison. Simpson-Bowles is the James Dean of deficit-reduction plans: more popular in death than life. Republican Senator…
He’s not the front-runner; White House chief of staff Jack Lew holds that distinction. (Lew’s is the largest photo at right.) But former Clinton-era chief of staff and former UNC…
Locker Room passes along Tea Party economist Gary North’s assessment of the nation’s debt crisis: I was happy to see an article from mainstream economists on the mess we are…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate prompted supporters to unearth video of former two-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles praising…
• Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th District, and Democratic opponent Patsy Keever offer a feisty opening to the fall campaign. • It’s not technically a campaign event, but a Sept.…
WTVD asked the John Locke Foundation to discuss the positive comments Democrat and former UNC system president Erskine Bowles has made about new Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.