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Thanks for joining us this morning. Last month, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine exploded 10 seconds after launch. One might recall a headline-grabbing explosion of an Elon Musk SpaceX rocket in April and conclude the billionaires are going tit-for-tat in their competition for commercial space dominance. That might sound reasonable except for this fact: Musk’s reusable…
Thanks for joining us this Saturday. We hope you enjoyed some down time during what’s usually a slow holiday week. Last September, we wrote about North Carolina’s reliance on a single natural gas pipeline for its entire supply – a circumstance that’s rather unique, especially for a state of our size. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have remedied our…
From the desk of Chuck Fuller In three days, the United States of America will celebrate her 247th year of existence. Compared to the dynastic empires of old, we’re still in our youth. The Ottoman Empire, for example, persisted under a sultanate for 642 years (1280-1922). Rome traces the origins of its 1,000-year history to 509…
Happy Saturday morning. With two named storms already targeting the western Atlantic, this is an opportune time to look at the state of disaster recovery policy. In short, it’s a disaster in and of itself. Yes, the Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Florence recovery effort led by Gov. Roy Cooper is especially slow. But under the current system, no recovery…
Happy Saturday, and thank you for joining us. Every summer, economic development watchers await the crown jewel of state business rankings: CNBC’s Top States for Business. The media outlet scores all 50 states on 88 metrics broken into 10 categories. The value of a favorable ranking is potentially worth tens of millions of dollars to…
Happy Saturday. Thank you for tuning in. We’re nearly six months into the new term of North Carolina’s Supreme Court. Democracy hasn’t devolved into fascism as the doomsdayers warned. But the high court has sent down impactful decisions on hot political cases. Proponents argue the court rectified egregious misapplications of the law handed down in the waning days…
Hello this Saturday morning. Thank you for joining us. A year ago in a piece titled The Purpose of Business, we asked, “To what end do companies exist – to earn profits or to use their power to mold society?” Stakeholder capitalism had arguably reached a crescendo, just two years after industry titans in 2020 formalized…
“State of Emergency.” It’s an official proclamation triggering emergency powers that we’re all too familiar with after COVID. But this week, Gov. Roy Cooper added a new definition to “state of emergency” – one that’s not an official proclamation but a means of communicating urgency over what he perceives as poor policymaking. It began Monday morning with…
The room fell quiet as the stalwart Senator Brent Jackson quietly stepped up to the podium to announce the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal late Monday afternoon. What he described in his remarks is a project, more than six years in the making called NCInnovation – a not-for-profit corporation most reporters in the room didn’t know existed.…
The room fell quiet as the stalwart Senator Brent Jackson quietly stepped up to the podium to announce the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal late Monday afternoon. What he described in his remarks is a project, more than six years in the making called NCInnovation – a not-for-profit corporation most reporters in the room didn’t know existed.…