April 1st, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Today we’re taking a look at a pressing topic for the fast growing Tar Heel State…Housing affordability and affordable housing – do they mean the same thing?Yes and no and, as Dr. Seuss would say, “maybe, not quite.”They’re often used interchangeably, but each represents one of two…
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March 25th, 2023 Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. We’ll dive right into it. America’s health care industry is an unmitigated disaster, and it’s driving our national debt crisis. U.S. per capita health care spending is $12,318 – more than double the average of other wealthy countries: America’s per capita health care spending as a percentage of per capita health…
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August 8th, 2023 Happy Saturday, thanks for joining us. Study after study ranks the Raleigh region among the fastest-growing metro areas in the country. This week, the Centennial Authority, which owns PNC Arena, and Gale Force Holdings – the parent company for the Carolina Hurricanes – piled onto the mountain of signals that the area’s headiest days are still…
Read MoreMarch 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…
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