Commentary/Opinion
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 progress has been made — with…
Opinion: Competition Makes Public Schools Better
By John Hood RALEIGH — According to multiple media reports, there will likely be major efforts during the 2023 session of the North Carolina General Assembly to raise and reform…
Opinion: ‘Centering Equity’ Poisons NC Opioid Plan
By David Larson Carolina Journal Attorney General Josh Stein announced that North Carolina would be receiving another $1 billion from opioid settlements, this time from Walgreens and CVS. This is in addition…
Opinion: Patients Deserve More Choice Of Hospitals
By John Hood RALEIGH — Asheville’s Mission Hospital will soon have a new competitor in Western North Carolina. That’s good news: when a single hospital system dominates a market, that…
Opinion: Index Confirms State’s Reddish Tint
By John Hood RALEIGH — How is the North Carolina Republican Party doing? The answer is 58. No, I haven’t come up with the #ncpol equivalent of The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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 2023. As 2022 ends and 2023…
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 key role in a story that…
Opinion: Most Pundits Miss Key Points Of N.C. Redistricting Dispute
By Mitch Kokai John Locke Foundation Lawyers and pundits have written tens of thousands of words about the Moore v. Harper case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly few of those words…
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 40 years on the North…
Opinion: Carolina Leaders Should Heed Cicero
By John Hood RALEIGH — North Carolina has an official state bird (the Northern Cardinal), an official state reptile (the Eastern Box Turtle), an official state insect (the honeybee), an…
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 was a century ago, and farming…
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. Manufacturing production accounted for almost a…
