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Anti-tariff SCOTUS brief features basic lesson on trade deficits
It’s hard to justify a national emergency based on a 50-year fact of American economic life.
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How American conservatism came to be
I’m a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain teacher, or somehow became disenchanted with their previous, left-leaning views. If the conversion happened as adults, after first being politically active as a progressive, socialist, or communist, they were called neoconservatives. One...
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Strong economies are also messy
Central planners promise to achieve comparable or better results without the “mess” of market economics. They are misleading at least themselves.
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Searching Sowell for wisdom about tariffs’ likely impact
A renowned economist from North Carolina highlights the history of tariffs' negative unintended consequences.
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Balance the federal budget Year 1
The question isn't whether we can afford to balance the budget immediately; it's whether we can afford not to.
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NC deserves a bold approach to address ‘child care crisis’
Buoying families, businesses, and the economy by improving child care demands bold regulatory trade-offs not a new permanent entitlement.
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Remote work yields benefits and costs
Remote work accounted for only 7% of work days in 2019. By 2023, the ratio was four times higher. The employment rate for disabled workers also shot up.
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Our economy is always churning
North Carolina’s private sector lost an eye-popping 414,000 jobs in the most-recent quarter. Are we on the brink of economic cataclysm?
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Sowell laments Progressives’ history of certainty, dismissiveness
Public discourse suffers when one side in a debate refuses to listen to the other side's arguments.
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The futile resistance to the Cherokee’s likely legalizing of marijuana
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.” — Thomas Sowell Since 1937, the United States federal government has overreached into the liberties of...
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Thoughts on the legacy of Thomas Sowell as the Gastonia native turns 93
This June 30 marks the 93rd birthday of an intellectual giant — a thinker who took on liberal elitism his entire life by writing more than 45 books and thousands of weekly columns. This person, known well by many but nowhere near enough, is Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell’s impact on contemporary political and social thought...
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Of course books can be dangerous
A thought occurred to me as I was traveling through the North Carolina Piedmont last week. The notion didn’t have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way. It was one of an excellent series on the world’s political hot spots issued by a...
