Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Uncompelling Case for NCInnovation
If we examine the case for public funding of NCInnovation, it is becoming clearer that the prospect is uncompelling.
Truist Financial
American bank holding company, formerly known as BB&T Corporation
Freedom Focus
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Paper Shows the Practical Impossibility of Central Planning
Socialist systems distrust the spontaneous order in market distribution of goods and replace it with central planners — with notoriously worse results. A new paper tested the hypothesis that this…
Liberty
Bank of America Big Winner in Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
When it comes to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), there’s one clear winner: Bank of America. The Charlotte-based company is one of the largest financial institutions in the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC economists: We’re being “data-driven into a ditch”
Cwik and Mandal then examine how actual, data-driven science could inform policies rather than one-size-fits-none lockdowns. As they show, there's no evidence that lockdowns even work. There is plenty of…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What does an inverted yield curve mean? Well, it depends
You may have heard news about the yield curve inverting and that it portends a recession. But what is it, and what does it mean?
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
President Trump heads back to North Carolina next week to stump for the Republican in the special 9th District congressional race. Rick Henderson discusses Trump’s visit and both of the…
Education
Superintendent Johnson does not reveal unholy alliance with Koch network
Last night, Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson spoke at a huge, invitation-only event at the Raleigh Convention Center. You may have heard of it after WRAL gave a few…
Liberty
The philosophic fight for the future of America
That’s how John Allison describes the force driving much of today’s partisan and social divide. The former BB&T and Cato Institute CEO, now an executive in residence at Wake Forest…
Liberty
HP stadium project takes shape, but it could still be ‘flushed down the commode’
High Point University president Nido Qubein updated a crowd of 900 at the university’s Hayworth Fine Arts Center on the proposed downtown baseball stadium/mixed-use development. Much of the project, according…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Is a $30 Million Ballpark a Good Investment for High Point Taxpayers?
Since the idea was announced in 2015, I’ve been keeping an eye on a proposed ballpark in downtown High Point. No one who’s read anything I’ve written previously about various…
Liberty
John Allison for Treasury secretary?
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…
Liberty
Libertarian leadership
Given libertarians’ general preference for individualism over collective action, you might find it amusing to ponder the notion of a libertarian form of leadership. Yet that’s what you will find…