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The only member of the “Big Three” agencies that has not downgraded the U.S. credit rating from “AAA” status warned that another government shutdown would make the United States look weak compared to other top-rated nations.
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2023 @ 5:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, Moody’s reduced the credit ratings of ten regional American banks while threatening to downgrade many other bigger banks.
Published: Monday, September 4th, 2023 @ 7:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three prime rating services, downgraded its rating of the entire banking system from stable to negative in response to the SVB banking crisis.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 12:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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According to federal data, the average American’s wage is on the decline due to inflation.
Published: Monday, October 4th, 2021 @ 6:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Amid fears over the coronavirus and an oil war, global markets plunged on Monday as oil prices had their biggest fall since the 1991 Gulf War.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2020 @ 1:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s state pension plan is prepared to weather another recession, a Pew Charitable Trusts stress test says.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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All is not well on higher education's financial front. At many colleges, tuition prices have reached record highs, enrollment is stagnant, revenues have flattened or declined, budgets are constricted, and regulatory compliance costs are skyrocketing
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two years ago I attended a student debate at North Carolina Central University, one of the state's five public historically black colleges and universities
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 12:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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As the stock market gyrates and talk of a new recession begins, many universities have reason to worry
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 9:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"'Bipartisan' usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out," comedian George Carlin once quipped. Perhaps, then, North Carolinians should be suspicious about the fact that the University of North Carolina system's president, a Democrat, and its Board of Governors...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 11:57 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Recent media reports of declining revenue, lagging patient volume and reduced operating surplus have not slowed Vidant Health from plunging ahead with plans for numerous acquisitions, mergers and/or joint ventures, but to accomplish these goals Vidant needs an infusion of capital.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 4:13 am
By: Betty Murphy
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The beginning of 2015 has been consequential for the University of North Carolina system. In January, the Board of Governors forced president Thomas Ross to resign from his position (he'll leave in early 2016), and in February the board garnered national attention after voting to close three centers
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Benedictine monks who founded Belmont Abbey College 138 years ago are better known for peacefulness than for trend-setting.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2013, 33,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy in the United States. Such normal, healthy commercial losses perform a critical function in a robust market system. Firms that don't satisfy the wants of customers, attract patrons, and stay within their budgets fall by the wayside, opening the door fo
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, it was announced that North Carolina retained its "AAA" rating by all three agencies, the highest credit rating available to state governments.
Published: Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 @ 7:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a 2009 Pope Center article, Professor Robert Blumenthal poses several questions to parents and prospective college students: "Does the institution [you're considering] have sufficient financial resources to deliver the education it promises? Does it have sufficient operating funds to provide...
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Contrary to recent media reports, North Carolina has taken out federal loans to operate its underfunded unemployment insurance system, and it is the state's obligation to see that $2.5 billion debt is repaid, said Dale Folwell, state assistant secretary of employment security.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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