Brian Yablonski writes at National Review Online about the right and wrong ways for the Biden administration to pursue one of its priorities.
Published: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The undercounted cost of the COVID pandemic is in the lives lost to despair, addiction, suicide, and other illnesses.
Published: Saturday, November 14th, 2020 @ 5:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Edward Lazear explains at National Review Online that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden offers the wrong prescription for helping America’s poor.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 @ 7:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic include the importance of keeping money in savings to cushion an economic shutdown.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 10:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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It makes little sense for American investors to risk their money on shadowy companies, as this op-ed points out
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 @ 10:56 am
By: LifeZette
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Freedom of the press and the freedom to operate in a free and open market is critical to maintaining the ideals of liberty and democracy
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The ill-advised and widely denounced tariff rhetoric coming from the White House has stressed manufacturers and upset the markets
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders are proposing a $1 billion middle class tax reduction plan that would lower personal and corporate income taxes, increase mortgage interest deductions, and allow for unlimited medical and charitable tax deductions
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning marked the inaugural sale of the first $200 million of the $2 billion Connect NC bond to support investments in our state's education, parks, National Guard and water and sewer infrastructure introduced by Governor Pat McCrory and overwhelmingly passed by voters in March
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2016 @ 12:06 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The experiment in inclusiveness made for some good music, but not so good in actual practice. The English people have spoken and all the pundits are aghast.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2016 @ 1:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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This week, Congressman Jones joined 44 of his Republican colleagues in writing U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asking for a federal investigation into a Chinese firm’s planned acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This year's legislative session turned out to be an ideological struggle, not between Republicans and Democrats, but between two factions within the Republican Party. (The factions exist outside the GOP as well, but Republicans control the governor's office and hold supermajorities to make...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a recent event with Harry Reid in Las Vegas President Obama accused conservatives of being inconsistent in their support for free markets. Why? Apparently because they are "not for" solar power. Here's what he had to say to the gathering...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The answer is obvious. It's a minimum wage increase that prices competition out of the market while exempting companies with a unionized work force.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As government agencies continue to push for growth, with the help of their special-interest allies and mainstream media outlets, advocates for free markets and limited government have to work hard to get their messages heard in the public policy debate.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Markets tend to work better than government in helping to solve problems. That's the idea economist Richard Vedder promoted to a group of North Carolina lawmakers during a recent visit to Raleigh. Vedder is a professor at Ohio University, director of the Center for College Affordability and...
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a proposition in public choice economics called the "special interest effect." It basically argues that government grows because, for most government programs, there are concentrated beneficiaries and diffused cost bearers. What this means is that the benefits of government programs will...
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the legislature comes back into session, there is a renewed focus on what are typically referred to as economic incentives, or by many who are more skeptical of such programs, corporate welfare or simply cronyism. Programs that are and will continue to be debated are subsidies to...
Published: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Harris Teeter started out as two independent grocery stores. In 1939, Willis L. Teeter and his brother Paul opened Teeters Food Mart in Mooresville with a $1,7000 loan.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservatives and libertarians spend a lot of time talking about freedom: free markets, limited government, personal responsibility.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is a very important question since the Democrats are driving the fiscal bus, and have been for the last four years. The obvious question is: Will they drive the nation over the fiscal cliff on Monday?
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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You wouldn't call someone "anti-spoon" if he preferred to use a knife to cut his steak.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even capitalism's biggest fans have to admit that industrialization has made our world dirtier. At least that seems to be conventional wisdom.
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2012 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the very first magazine articles I wrote for pay, appearing in The Freeman magazine, had the colorfully oleaginous title of "Gray Markets and Greased Pigs."
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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