Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that North Carolina would join 13 states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition opposed to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Their goal is reducing their states’ share of the U.S. greenhouse gas…
Federal regulators are getting increasingly uneasy with proposals such as a partnership involving UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System. Such arrangements, critics say, inhibit competition and raise the potential for anti-trust violations. Devon Herrick, a health economist and policy adviser to the Heartland Institute in…
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 748: Devastation in Texas linked to Hurricane Harvey and the threat of East Coast damage from Hurricane Irma helped lead to higher prices at N.C. gas pumps. State officials also invoked North Carolina’s price-gouging law. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation senior economist and…
Devastation in Texas linked to Hurricane Harvey and the threat of East Coast damage from Hurricane Irma helped lead to higher prices at N.C. gas pumps. State officials also invoked North Carolina’s price-gouging law. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation senior economist and resident scholar, explains why the law ignores the…
The debate over short-term rentals in Raleigh has continued for a couple of years without a clear solution. Brent Woodcox is special counsel to the General Assembly and former co-chair of the city’s short-term rental task force. He created Share Raleigh, a political action committee focusing on the…
Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation senior economist and resident scholar, explains why price-gouging laws are counterproductive. Cordato offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
A typical North Carolina medical patient would save nearly $300 a year and have more competitive options for lower-cost treatment if outdated regulations didn’t exist, research shows. Matt Mitchell, a senior research fellow and director of the Project for the Study of American Capitalism at the…
The Republicans have enjoyed majorities in both bodies of the General Assembly for nearly seven years now, and pretty soon Phil Berger and Tim Moore will be asking for two more. This is an appropriate time to assess their performance on the economy. Even under the Perdue and Cooper governorships, policy outputs were shaped greatly by House…
Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park are joining the growing number of candidates submitting proposals for Amazon’s second headquarters. The tech giant plans to invest $5 billion for construction and hire up to 50,000 new employees. Proposals are due by…
Visitors to 47th Street in Manhattan notice one clear exception to business dominated by sophisticated financial institutions and companies housed in skyscrapers. The diamond district operates today much as it did decades ago. Duke University professor Barak Richman explains why in his recent book Stateless Commerce. Richman discussed the book…
