Category: Economy

Miss Nancy is BUSTED! (Livin’ la vida 1%)

Posted on December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 by Brant Clifton

(I bet Pinehurst mayor — and faithful Haymaker reader Nancy Fiorillo — had a conniption and spit out her coffee when she saw that headline. ) Our friends at

Time for Sally Struthers to leave Africa and go film a commercial on Capitol Hill?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve heard of Feed The Children, but FEED THE CONGRESSMEN? It’s clearly a slow news time here at the end of the year. The Washington Post did a story

Merry Christmas! BarryO wants another $1.2 TRILLION.

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Brant Clifton

That debt ceiling deal Republicans sold us on a few months back is going from bad to worse. We were told the country would go into

GOP in DC waves the white flag on limited government and fiscal sanity

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Well — looking back at the developments in DC this past week — we learned that we cannot count on John Boehner, Richard Burr, Howard Coble, or Renee Ellmers to

Capitalism and “The Right to Rise”

Posted on December 20, 2011December 20, 2011 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got BarryO and Dingy Harry Reid and Miss Nancy salivating over the idea of soaking “the rich” and making them “pay their fair share.” We’ve got GOP

The Grinch is trying to steal Boss Bev’s Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2011December 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Her friends at The N&O are STILL talking about those pesky private airplane flights from 2008 that SOMEHOW never made it onto her

DEE-NIED! Feds reject appeal of downtown Pinehurst post office closure

Posted on December 14, 2011December 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In a December 12 order, The federal government’s Postal Regulatory Commission has rejected Pinehurst mayoral candidate John Marcum’s appeal of the decision by The U.S.

Moore County: Tim Says He’s Sorry

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The crackerjack news team at our thrice-weekly Pulitzer-Prize winning local newspaper hit us the other day with this headline: “Board Apologizes for Criticism on Working

NCSU economist: North Carolina faces long road to recovery

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Brant Clifton

NC State University economics professor Dr. Mike Walden painted a bleak picture of the state’s economic future during December 1 testimony before the General Assembly’s

One More Time: Government DOES NOT CREATE JOBS

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Economist Paul Gregory has an excellent piece on Forbes.com slapping down the notion put forth by BarryO and his allies that MORE government spending is