Michael DeBow writes for the Martin Center about efforts to thwart the for-profit sector in higher education. During the Obama years, the Department was dominated by people who regarded for-profit…
Governor Roy Cooper is asking folks to donate school supplies to public schools. The effort will start on August 14th and end on September 8. Remember that every purchase will…
Dr. Terry Stoops began to wonder about the claim made by the Left that public charter school management companies are making money off of kids. So he decided to compare where money…
View in your browser. 1. Are supplies of "finite" natural resources really fixed? Pick your natural resource: oil, land, copper, coal, you name it. At one time or another, it…
Saith Donald Boudreaux over at the Cato Institute: In private markets, each person who ignores the preferences of buyers or sellers in order to indulge his or her personal ideological…
Today’s Freeman column gives an excellent illustration of entrepreneurship — i.e., seeing an opportunity and then figuring out how to profit from it. Had Barack Obama been around back then,…
Swain County will acquire the real estate of Swain West Elementary in order to take out a $1.8 million loan for capital improvements.
John Calfee of the American Enterprise Institute has a great reminder about the value of international business and the unintended consequences that come when profit-seeking firms do business. He illustrates…
UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp recently published a book in which he maintains that universities are the country’s engines of innovation. In today’s Pope Center article, however, Jay Schalin runs that…
Because there is no such thing as a stupid question, I don’t know what this is: What is the origin of the expression “profit motive”? From mass media reports, one…
We all know that greedy businessmen think only of profits, throwing all environmental concerns aside. Environmental improvements since at least the 1960s are due primarily to the work of government…
In his column today, Sheldon Richman argues that what Obama wants is not competition in health insurance, but a cartel subject to federal control. Good point. Just as Big Tobacco…