by Dr. Michael Walden, NC State University Professor of Economics, December 29, 2019. TEN NORTH CAROLINA ECONOMIC HEADLINES FOR 2018 AND 2019 The broadest measure of economic output in North Carolina... Read More
Well, another new year is upon us and the public policy landscape is, in many ways, more crowded and contentious than ever. Everywhere one turns, there are large, important and hotly contested issues... Read More
Want yet more one signal that American politics has changed markedly in the past decade? Look no further than the annual report card issued by the Cato Institute to grade the fiscal performance of the... Read More
How Did We Get To This Point With The NC State Board of Elections? With yesterday's news (I'm afraid to call it a bombshell because North Carolina's political landscape is littered with craters... Read More
As another year draws to a close, a year of Democratic resurgence in both national and local politics, I offer this challenge to incumbent and newly elected lawmakers alike. Do you really want to be... Read More
Was Apple’s choice of Austin, Texas, over the Research Triangle for its new, $1 billion campus a win or a loss for North Carolina? The answer isn’t as obvious as local boosters would have you... Read More
The end of the year is near, and as we reflect on the biggest news, it’s also important to highlight what stories were near and dear to our heart. There were two meaningful stories that I covered... Read More
by Mike Walden, NCSU Professor of Economics, December 21, 2018. It’s that time of year when economists are looked to as fortune-tellers. The fortune, in this case, is our collective well-being tied... Read More
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.” Its thousand pages of fine print are a valuable resource. But there is a problem. When I... Read More
I know that environmental activists don’t want to hear this, but a core component of their preferred strategy for combatting global warming — substantially raising the price of fossil fuels... Read More
