Prosperity

Wishing You a Wonderful New Year Filled With Opportunity and Prosperity

Grow! Grow!

I was reading some comments from esteemed economists this morning, and marveling at, for example, how many in their ranks did not see the housing bubble coming. Granted, people can…

Don’t Burn Books – Cook Them

From the headlines today, we read of plans to build a new ABC store, a new casino, and a new brewery. This is celebrated as an indicator of prosperity. By…

Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

At Carolina Journal Online: “Delayed Election Schedule Could Help Vulnerable Democrats in 2012” Gov. Bev Perdue takes a shot at her GOP rivals during an MLK prayer breakfast (WUNC) Former…

Quit Multiplying Economics & Make Something

The headlines have been saying jobs are up, jobs are down. Now, we have the official word, uttered by Governor Beverly Perdue herself, that unemployment is up. To combat the…

House Finance

Early this morning the House Finance Committee met to discuss several of the bills on their calendar. For the first hour H.B. 315, Taxpayer Information Act, was debated. Several people…

Wind Turbines as Crucifixes

View in browser. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well as items in the news. 1. Thursday evening: Americans for Prosperity NC…

Another Nail in Prosperity’s Coffin

From Business Week: The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to…

Steve Moore describes the ‘End of Prosperity’

If you missed Steve Moore’s trek through Greensboro and Raleigh today, here’s a treat. Click on the play button below to observe about 14 minutes of his conversation with people…

I thought diversity was a good thing

Check out the latest list of the world’s 50 most stable and prosperous nations. The U.S. barely cracks the top half. But look at most of the countries at the…

Re: Setting the Record Straight

There is something I didn?t include in my previous post, which I think is more evidence that the left cares little about making the poor prosperous. An observation that I…

Role of Taxation in NC

As Joe Coletti has pointed out in a Policy Report – the conclusion of which he presented to a group of Fearrington Republicans – the General Assembly has a pattern…