The Heritage Foundation’s 2022 “Index of Economic Freedom” puts the United States at a record low ranking, falling from 20th in 2021 to 25th this year out of 177 countries ranked. “The decline of American economic freedom is serious cause for alarm, and has real and tangible consequences for all Americans, especially low-income families and...
RALEIGH — Democratic N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper has scheduled a Tuesday fundraiser for his gubernatorial campaign at the Manteo home of a former Easley Cabinet official who acquired the house under the cloud of conflict of interest allegations.
If North Carolinians are looking for models of how to deliver valuable services at an affordable cost while fostering rapid economic growth, Poland would be a good place to start.
RALEIGH — Russia has witnessed massive changes over the past two decades. Not all of them have been good. Yuri Maltsev, professor of economics at Carthage College, served as a top economics adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union, before Maltsev defected to the United States in 1989. Earlier this year, Maltsev addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on the topic “Russia, Hydrocarbons, Autocracy, and Power Politics.” He shared some key themes from that presentation during an interview with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Recent world rankings detail the sorry state of freedom in the United States.
RALEIGH — Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal editorial board recently spoke in Raleigh on the topic “Prosperity in Peril.” Moore believes the economic benefits tied to the Bush tax cuts could be in jeopardy under the next presidential administration. He discussed the topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — A state official defending first lady Mary Easley’s foreign travel implied that a recent art exhibit generated a $20 million economic impact to the state. The net economic impact to the state calculated by Carolina Journal actually totaled less than $4 million.
RALEIGH — On the same day her lavish spending on an overseas trip was front-page news, Gov. Mike Easley’s wife Mary received a $79,700 pay raise for her job at North Carolina State University, according to public records obtained from the school.
Despite the manifest flaws in a current book by a master of cliches, there is something to the notion of the world getting flatter — in the area of taxes. Russia, Germany, and even North Carolina may be part of the trend.
