head of the U.S. Department of Commerce
Gov. Josh Stein recently celebrated what his Commerce Secretary described as a “record-setting year for job creation” in North Carolina, citing tens of thousands of job announcements statewide. But announcements…
This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders published a research brief on the unintended consequences of changing the date of Thanksgiving in 1939. Sanders writes: As strange as this sounds to 21st-century…
There’s a great piece in the News & Observer today about the way that tariffs on steel and aluminum will affect the breweries and the price of beer. It’s interesting…
I know it’s not a popular position, but I was actually relieved to see that North Carolina didn’t win the Toyota-Mazda plant. Why? Because, according to the Commerce Secretary, North…
View in your browser. 1. Asking the right questions about economic incentives In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North…
North Carolina Commerce Secretary — by the way, what would you say a commerce secretary does here? — John Skvarla spoke recently to WRAL on incentives for energy (see the…
To the self-defeating idea of economic incentives, Decker is an endless Rickroll; she is never gonna give you up never gonna give you up never gonna give you up ……
Education Policy The education budget has remained in the news this week, and Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, has been writing about it. He has looked at the facts…
View in your browser. If anyone thought that a change in political party in the governor’s mansion would produce a change in the belief that government is actually the state’s…
Exposing the rent-seeking class is nothing new for Timothy Carney. In his latest piece for the Washington Examiner, Carney discusses the record of President Obama’s choice to lead the Commerce…
View in your browser. "[T]his law reduces the hidden tax of about $1,000 for family coverage that those with insurance pay to cover the cost of the uninsured who rely…
Jason Kay, staff attorney over at North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law testified in a House Finance Committee meeting this week on constitutional concerns with the proposed Life Science Development…