American Enterprise Institute president Author Brooks pens his list of the Top Ten Ways Government Kills Jobs in America. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appears to be on ... Keep Reading
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The Very First Civitas Quiz
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Bad Bill of the Year Tournament – 2010
This year's bad bill tournament winner/loser is SB 1378. Sen. Tony Foriest (D-Alamance), the bill’s primary sponsor, is singing an all too familiar tune: we need to spend money now ... Keep Reading
Small Business Loan Program is More Useless Economic Tinkering
Congress recently approved a small business lending program as part of broader legislation aimed at helping small businesses. The lending program is designed to make $30 billion in ... Keep Reading
They Call This “Recovery”?
So the "experts" tell us the recession is over, and has been over for more than a year. Now don't you feel better? The experts, of course, rely on aggregate data captured in the ... Keep Reading
Government Dependence at All-Time High
Per USA Today: Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to ... Keep Reading
Class Envy Rhetoric Hurts the Poor
Gene Nichol, a professor of law at the UNC School of Law, and director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity continues the N&O's promotion of economic ... Keep Reading
More Stimulus Nonsense From a Local Economics Professor
Yesterday's N&O features an op-ed making the claim that the federal government's response to the recession failed because it didn't go far enough. The article seriously lacks ... Keep Reading
Lefties Cling to Discredited Study on Stimulus Claims
Today's N&O features an article by Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics. In the article, Zandi claims that without the federal stimulus, our economy would be in ... Keep Reading
Gov’t Stimulus Boosts Gov’t Power at Everyone Else’s Expense
Today's Greensboro News & Record included my letter to the editor discussing government stimulus schemes: A recent editorial discussing the federal government’s stimulus funds ... Keep Reading