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U.S. companies slowed hiring last month far more than economists predicted, according to data released in the ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday.
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 6:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Economists at the Federal Reserve predicted that a mild recession would hit the United States in the second half of 2023.
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 8:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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poll of American voters by YouGov for The Economist magazine
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Steed
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Economists with the Committee to Unleash Prosperity released a new study last month highlighting our nation’s expansive welfare state.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Various polls show that economists generally expect a recession this year, although there is no consensus among leading analysts.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: Daily Wire
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Unemployment remained historically low in November as the number of new jobs soared past economists’ forecasts, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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Europe is heading toward an energy crisis, and some economists are even predicting the continent will experience a serious recession.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 4:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Under Biden, prices are going up and North Carolinians are having a hard time putting food on the table. In August, consumer prices jumped 8.3 percent compared to last year, remaining near 40-year highs and exceeding economists’ expectations.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2022 @ 11:47 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Biden Claims He’s ‘Growing The Economy’ While It Continues To Shrink, Warns Inflation Not Going AwayPresident Joe Biden (D) claimed during an interview Sunday night that he was “growing the economy” despite the fact that the U.S. economy has shrank for two consecutive quarters in what economists have long indicated is a warning sign that an economy is in a recession.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 9:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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Top economists who worked for former President Barack Obama (D) slammed President Joe Biden (D) for his plan to bail out a large number of Americans from having to pay back a substantial portion of their student loans or Pell Grants.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 3:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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The bill includes $433 billion in new spending.
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 10:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Biden administration is trying to get ahead of what economists expect to be another negative reading for Gross Domestic Product on July 28.
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 2:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two former top economic officials for former President Barack Obama are warning that President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, will increase inflation at a time when rates are already skyrocketing.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Fuel price control proposal
Published: Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 @ 3:36 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Of 'Oil Companies profiteering' for skyrocketing gas prices
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 5:19 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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State revenue forecasts jump from $28.4 billion to $32.6 billion in fiscal year 2021-2022.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NEW YORK, NY—After over two years of lockdowns and mandates, economists are now starting to think shutting down the economy for two years may have had some negative consequences.
Published: Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 @ 7:10 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of U.S. economic inflation, continued climbing quickly in May, surpassing economists’ expectations for another month.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 1:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The state budget may be spared economists’ worst fears from the COVID pandemic, according to a new tax revenue forecast.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. unemployment rate shocked economists on Wall Street, dropping to 13.3% for the month of May.
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2020 @ 9:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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Imagine you've been given the task to argue that an industry needs government support to survive. How do you think you'd make that case?
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a great deal of public discussion right now about the minimum wage.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2019 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Richard Furlough
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Laws that forbid price increases during extreme events have bad unintended consequences at the very worst of times. Precisely because of those consequences, economists and pundits at the John Locke Foundation have warned against those laws for decades
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tariffs will make reconstruction more expensive and possibly slow efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Florence, builders and economists say.
Published: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One subject that economists are in greatest agreement over is the negative unintended consequences of the minimum wage
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the flourishing economic climate in the United States as being one of the major successes of his administration - a fact that goes either largely unreported in the media or is reported as the fruits of the Obama administration
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 10:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Most economists agree that our corporate tax rate harms American workers by keeping their wages down.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2017 @ 1:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Economists on Wednesday said they expected North Carolina's economy to grow somewhat in 2017, but they cautioned against counting on a robust growth during the coming year
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"There is a date certain" when Social Security and Medicare trust funds will be empty, and Millennials and the members of Generation X will be left to pick up the pieces, one of the nation’s leading economists says
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's newsletter mentioned in passing something that this week's entry will explore further. It discussed my new report promoting a state REINS Act for North Carolina, in light of findings by Beacon Hill economists that the regulatory burden imposed by North Carolina on the private sector...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new, groundbreaking report from Beacon Hill economists estimated that in 2015 state regulations cost North Carolina's economy at minimum $3.1 billion and possibly as much as $25.5 billion.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report on December 19, most North Carolina politicians, journalists, economists, and policy analysts immediately zeroed in on the state's recent performance.
Published: Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year, Jonathan Gruber was "one of the most respected economists in the world," in the words of U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor. He was cited favorably by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was praised by NPR and others for producing a comic book featuring...
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 12:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics often label capitalism as unfair. They say a system based on free markets and limited government control leads to wide disparities among the rich and poor.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I took the job as a movie theater cashier, I had no idea my first excursion into the working world would deliver such valuable life lessons. I learned it's not a good idea to work for someone who tells you to protect the cash register at all costs and hands you a baseball bat to fend off robber
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When you hear politicians utter the phrase "economists say," be skeptical. There may well be economists who agree with their particular policy idea. But economists and other social scientists don't speak with one voice. There are many differences of opinion, reflecting differences in assumptions...
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2013 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Austrian economist and philosopher F.A. Hayek is probably best known for his argument that we are usually better off if we rely on the spontaneous order that emerges from peaceful human interactions than order that is coercively imposed by government officials.
Published: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
By: George Leef
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When the New York Times finds a case of what economists call market failure, you can expect that its reporters will investigate it to the core. But when it stumbles across a clear case of government failure, expect at best a superficial and myopic investigation.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If North Carolina were a separate country, we would not fare well in key international comparisons of economic competitiveness.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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