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We have documented North Carolina’s strong financial condition and have argued against new federal money for months, even as we sought more rational rules on how that first round of…
Christopher Bedford writes for the Federalist about the prospects of a federal government deal to address coronavirus concerns. Washington’s politicians are frightened for the economy and for their health, and…
Bloomberg reports that: Former BB&T Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Allison is a late entrant on a short-list for the job of U.S. Treasury secretary, according to two people familiar…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute uses his latest National Review Online column to spotlight one presidential candidate’s focus on cronies. As Carly Fiorina gets a second look following her…
As you probably know, long-time state senator Martin Nesbitt died recently. It was nice to see people of all political persuasions burying their differences to celebrate the good he had…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute probes in a National Review Online column the Obama administration’s Orwellian use of language in describing the president’s latest budget proposals. The single most…
I know that’s a shocking concept, but it’s one professed by Neil Barofsky, senior fellow at New York University and former special inspector general of the $700 billion Troubled Asset…
It is crony capitalism at its worst. Executives at taxpayer-bailed out firms received Treasury Department-approved pay hikes — your hard-earned tax dollars at work. The Special Inspector General for the…
You’re going to hear and see a lot in the mainstream media over the next few days about how wonderful the TARP program has been, how it saved so many…
Gannett was supposed to have exclusive rights, but a member of the press snuck in, anyway. It was decided it was very important to noise the material abroad, so here…
John Stossel‘s latest column subjects Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to a libertarian-based scrutiny. He was terrific. He was a rare politician, one who actually cared about America’s coming…
Think only those pesky Republicans and free-market advocates oppose the way the Obama administration handled bank bailouts? Perhaps you’ll want to read a short Bloomberg Businessweek article about Neil Barofsky.…