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March 18th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us again. Today we’re talking ChatGPT: What is it, why does it matter, and what problems might arise from it in the future? The technology had been percolating in the background for months before it became the topic of conversation across the media and political spectrum.…
Read MoreMarch 11th, 2023 Hello this Saturday morning. Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Every few months we stop to write to you – our strong and growing audience of business leaders throughout the state – about what we see as our purpose. Why do we write a (free) business and political newsletter six days per week,…
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March 3rd, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Our days are filled with fleeting thoughts. Sometimes, the more organized among us will jot down an important one in a notebook for later recollection and review, but it’s a safe bet most float away. In recent months we’ve offered you answers to, “I wonder…
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February 25th, 2025 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us again for what we hope will be time well spent as we take a smart look at an important topic – federal spending. In one of Dolly Parton’s many philanthropic endeavors there is a program, “Imagination Library,” that sends high quality books to children from…
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February 18th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. It doesn’t appear that Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence feature, ChatGPT, has yet obtained the nuclear codes as it threatened to do earlier this week. That’s a good reason to seize the day. We’re talking this morning about intellectual diversity at North Carolina’s public universities, and we’re doing it for two reasons:…
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February 11th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Hopefully soon, you’ll be looking up in the North Carolina sky not in search of a Chinese balloon, but of an American-made supersonic commercial jet. Late last month, Boom Supersonic broke ground on its “Overture Superfactory” to start production on what is expected to be the world’s fastest jetliner, opening up…
Read MoreFebruary 4th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Today we’re talking about the consequences of the no-holds-barred litigation strategies of opponents to voter ID and redistricting policies. They won major legal victories that forced Republicans to severely moderate on both fronts. But the litigious activists couldn’t leave well enough alone. They plowed the…
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January 28th, 2023 It’s Saturday morning again. Welcome back. Do you use the word “quadrillion” often? It comes after “trillion” – million, billion, trillion…quadrillion. The answer is probably no. But your grandkids will, according to the quants who built the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model. The widely-respected model predicts U.S. debt held by…
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January 21st 2021 Happy Saturday morning. We hope you’re getting through the doldrums of winter. Today we’re talking about Wolfspeed, the semiconductor company formerly known as Cree. The company responsible for the largest economic development announcement in North Carolina history, betting big that the electric vehicle market will follow a hockey-stick trajectory, and with it…
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January 14th, 2023 Thank you for spending some of your Saturday morning with us. For many years, North Carolina has benefited from a Commissioner of Labor that appreciates the challenges business owners face. That doesn’t mean the Commissioner has ignored labor concerns like workplace safety – it just means the Commissioner has taken a balanced, real-world…
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