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Companies Dumping DEI
Jennifer Sey writes for the Washington Examiner about an interesting development in the world of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Amid the COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter chaos of June 2020,…
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Amazon to Layoff 18,000 Employees This Week
Amazon will begin laying-off over 18,000 employees this week, the largest in the company’s history. This is the latest instance of a major company downsizing its working staff, and a…
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Starbucks to Face Suit Over Discriminatory Practices
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports on interesting legal action involving a high-profile company. A Starbucks shareholder is suing the company’s top executives over a host of race-conscious…
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Cooper Gives a Corporation $56 million Then Blasts Corporate Tax Cuts
Gov. Roy Cooper opposes corporate tax cuts and giveaways. At least publicly. In his 2017 State of the State address, he made them sound like an occult ritual: “We cannot…
N.C. counties promised $284 million in incentives over five years
Click here to view and here to listen to Sarah Curry discussing this Policy Report. RALEIGH — N.C. counties entered into incentives contracts totaling nearly $284 million from 2009 to…
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What’s a ‘subprime retailer’?
A Charlotte Observer headline the other day caught my eye: “Texas subprime retailer Conn’s planning big NC expansion.” Subprime retailer? Don’t think I’d ever seen those two words used before…
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Good or bad, third party solar electricity sales are not free market
If an industry can only provide its product by using the state to force others to deal with them it is not a industry that can be functional in a…
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Economics of Home Ownership – Part 1
View in your browser. A few weekends ago, I decided it was time to paint our living room. It made me start thinking about home ownership and how the recent…
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Ignore Those Unintended Consequences
Everybody loves those little curly-fry lightbulbs that fade upholstery and artwork and, some allege, contribute to skin cancer. Drawing down fewer kilowatt-hours, they provide the same number of lumens as…
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Re: N.C. CEO pay
The Charlotte Observer compiles a list of top CEO compensation in North Carolina. Many are based here in the Triad.
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The "Green Jobs" Hoax
You probably suspected as much. The details: Using these definitions, a construction worker who installs insulation; a pipefitter who installs a valve that controls stormwater release; an electrician who installs…
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In case you missed him …
Roy Cordato discussed the moral hazard of mortgage bailouts during an appearance on UNC Public Television’s “North Carolina Now.” The first video clip below is the televised segment. The second…