Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. In mid-January, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell posted a stunning video. In a two-minute straight-to-camera address, Powell revealed that “the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony to the Senate Banking Committee last June.” The testimony…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today, we’re finishing our series on what key members of the Council of State accomplished in 2025, with a focus on Treasurer Brad Briner. We’ll get right to it. *** “Sometimes I do actually suck at investing,” Briner wrote last month in a folksy “Finance Fridays” column…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Now that pre-primary fundraising reports are mostly published, we’re offering a preview of the state of play in the top state and federal races. Election Day is March 3, and early voting is already underway. *** Key Party Accounts It’s instructive to look at the fundraising figures…
Part 3: State Auditor Dave Boliek Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today, we’re continuing our series on the top 2025 accomplishments from key executive branch and Council of State agencies, focusing here on State Auditor Dave Boliek. We’ll get right to it. *** The state auditor has always commanded some level of…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Throughout the year, we’ll feature pieces centered on our country’s 250th birthday, or “A250.” Today we’re diving into the catalyst for the greatest engine of wealth creation and innovation in human history: American capitalism. We’ll get right to it. *** If there’s a bargain that defines the…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today we’re continuing a series we began last week about 2025 accomplishments from key executive branch and Council of State agencies. We’ll dive right in. *** Whether they realize it or not, the most direct connection regular North Carolinians have with the North Carolina Department of Labor…
Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. Today, we’re kicking off a series examining what key leaders across the North Carolina Council of State and the executive branch accomplished in 2025. We’ll focus on the roles that have the greatest impact on the business community, starting with Secretary of Commerce Lee Lilley. Thanks for reading. ***…
“The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape,” blared a Washington Post headline this week, reinforcing the reality that data centers have rocketed to the top of media and policymaking focus. In recent months, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pressed for a national moratorium on data center construction; Secretary of Energy Chris Wright warned data center…
Good Saturday morning. When Erskine Bowles took the stage in Washington last October, he sounded like an exasperated coach watching the game clock approach zero. “Clearly there are lots of reasons why we have an arithmetic problem,” he told a room full of economists and policymakers gathered by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). “Not only…