Liberty
Deficits Worry the Markets
Editors at National Review Online point out one troubling sign tied to the federal government’s massive overspending. The federal deficit doubled in fiscal year 2023, and the bond market is…
Fitch Ratings
American credit rating agency
Liberty
Exposing Biden’s ‘Illusion of Prosperity’
Editors at Issues and Insights raise the curtain on President Biden’s economy. “You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give…
Liberty
National Review Laments an American Downgrade
Editors at National Review Online ponder a poor assessment of the American government’s credit picture. Rating agency Fitch downgraded U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+. That’s only the second…
Elections & Public Integrity
Finally I Can Agree: There Ought To Be a Law
It’s common sense. And it should already be state law, but it’s not. Not yet anyway. Senate Bill 473 would prohibit types of conflict of interest and questionable actions in…
Research Brief
Regulation
Fighting Corruption Is Not Racist
An investigation by the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor exposed corruption and incompetence in the city government of Rocky Mount. State Senator Lisa Barnes has introduced legislation that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The border wall fight and the federal government’s bond rating
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online focuses on one potential long-term impact of the current fight over border wall funding. Physically securing the southern border was understood to be a…
Liberty
One reason for Putin’s adventurism
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek offers a clue about one potential reason for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin‘s recent adventurism: the county’s shaky economy. The Big Three ratings agencies have…
Energy
Here’s a shocker: Politics likely played a larger role than science in boosting a solar company
Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon digs into the details of a politically motivated “green energy” project involving the Obama adminstration’s U.S. Energy Department. The Department of Energy ignored…
Liberty
Fitch Reaffirms CLT Airport Revenue Bond Rating
All $586 million of it, at “A+”. Rationale here.
Liberty
Speaking of government interference ?
John Makin disputes the notion that our financial meltdown marks a case of ?market failure.? The American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow writes in Commentary: The housing bubble was thus a…
Liberty
Meck's Debt Bomb
Let’s see, it takes a letter from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce to the Mecklenburg County Commission for anyone to notice that the county — and city — is spending…
Liberty
The Big Ripoff Coming to Your Wallet
If everything unfolded according to plan this afternoon, the wraps were taken off a plan to explode Mecklenburg County’s debt limit, the first step in a radical tax-and-spend agenda for…