Some N.C. Supreme Court Justices have taken a special interest in protecting North Carolinians' "enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor."
North Carolina’s constitution has protected people’s rights to the “enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor” for more than 150 years. But the state’s highest court continues to wrestle with the form that protection should take. That was a key message in N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr.’s May 10 presentation to the Bastiat Society of Raleigh.
Our leaders should receive our thanks for their efforts, and our prayers. But they should neither request nor receive our uncritical deference.
Lots of North Carolinians design, produce, process, transport, or market exports — and neither political posturing nor “tough” talk can replace the income they lose as other countries hike tariffs in response to ours.
The nuclear industry is the latest to promote research that confuses basic economic concepts of costs and benefits.
From June 2011 to December 2011, North Carolina experienced net job creation. During the same six-month period in 2010, 2009, and 2008, North Carolina experienced net job losses.
To award government favors without employing a realistic financial model is to set yourself up for a pretty big stumble.
During his State of the Union address, the president unwittingly underscored the importance of considering both “seen” and “unseen” consequences of political choices.
RALEIGH — He left office more than 20 years ago, but the late President Ronald Reagan still exercises a major influence over American politics and public policy. Steven Hayward examines that influence in his two-volume narrative history of the 40th president, The Age of Reagan. Hayward, F.K. Weyerhauser Fellow in law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, discussed Reagan’s impact with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Many North Carolina politicians genuinely believe that the best way to make our state a more attractive place to do business is to increase the cost of doing business here.
A cautionary tale from Dr. Seuss offers plenty of wisdom as we cope with the ill effects of a federal bailout boondoggle.
