Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation fiscal policy analyst, discusses his concerns that government programs have skewed the numbers associated with the nation’s economic outlook. Coletti offered these comments in response to North Carolina’s announcement of a 11.0 percent unemployment rate for October.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...