The forecast for Hurricane Florence looks bleak. It’s hard to imagine as of this writing, but if the storm proceeds the way it’s predicted to go, then by next week people’s lives and neighborhoods in many areas of the state, from the coastal towns to the central Piedmont, will be…
Markets may be messy, but they work. What doesn’t work is for politicians to blunder in with clubs and threaten to bludgeon people.
Wrong-headed fear-mongering and price hysteria are counterproductive and harmful, no matter what the price of gas. But markets consist of both supply and demand, and prices are the result of market forces.
Alumni of Elizabeth City State are upset about the prices local hotels are offering for Homecoming Weekend. Rather than complaining to the government, they're shopping for a better deal.
