You Decide: Can Economics Help You Survive 2023?
By Mike Walden
2023 will be a challenging year for the economy. We’re starting the year with the ongoing problem of high inflation. Although...
You Decide: Will 2023 Be Naughty Or Nice?
By Mike Walden
The traditional holiday question to children, “Have you been naughty or nice,” is a perfect lead-in to the economic outlook in...
Opinion: Carolina Leader Sides With Christmas
By John Hood RALEIGH — Josephus Daniels, one of the most prominent North Carolinians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, played a...
You Decide: Is Economics About More Than Jobs And Inflation?
By Mike Walden
Every time there is trouble looming for the economy, my schedule of presentations and interviews explodes. It happened during my more than...
You Decide: Where Can We Cut Back?
By Mike Walden
Both of my grandfathers were farmers in southwestern Ohio. One had a hog farm and the other raised beef cows. This...
You Decide: If Inflation Subsides, Will Everything Be OK?
By Mike Walden
I came to Raleigh and joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1978. Then, manufacturing dominated the North Carolina economy....
You Decide: Do We First Need Economic Pain To Have Economic Gain?
By Mike Walden
I started lifting weights when I was in graduate school at Cornell University in the early 1970s. I joined a group—appropriately called...
You Decide: Is The Social Safety Net A Spring Board Or A Cushion?
By Mike Walden
There are few public issues that create more debate than the “social safety net.” By social safety net, I mean the set...
You Decide: Should The Fed Stop Influencing Interest Rates?
By Mike Walden
The Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) is now in the process of increasing interest rates. This is a tactic the Fed uses...
Letter To The Editor: My Thoughts On GOP Endorsement Of Three School Board Candidates
By Mark Lane President Ronald Reagan popularized a saying, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”, which became known as Reagan’s 11th...
