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Ken Nelson's Radio Commentary with Bill Lumaye on WPTF 850 AM

October 30th, 2014

Newly-Released Business Tax Climate Rankings Give Scott Walker And Thom Tillis Plenty To Tout

http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2014/10/28/walker-tillis-tax-improvements/

North Carolina leaps to No. 16 in business tax ranking

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/28/4270999/north-carolina-leaps-to-no-16.html

A closer look at the economics of Ebola

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-closer-look-at-the-economics-of-ebola/

The economic impact of Ebola

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21612158-epidemics-damage-economies-well-health-panicking-only-makes-it-worse

Ebola crisis: The economic impact

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28865434

The Economic Effects Of Ebola On West Africa; It's Because Of The Way The Economies Are Structured

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/09/05/the-economic-effects-of-ebola-on-west-africa-its-because-of-the-way-the-economies-are-structured/

How Fear of Ebola Could Impact the US Economy

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fear-ebola-impact-us-economy/story?id=25915737

Understanding the Economic Effects of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2014/10/01-ebola-outbreak-west-africa-sy-copley

September 4th, 2014

Detroit bankruptcy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_bankruptcy

Did Republican Senate candidate Tillis cut $500 million from the North Carolina education budget?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/19/emilys-list/did-republican-senate-candidate-thom-tillis-cut-50/

Ad says Senate candidate Thom Tillis gave tax breaks to North Carolina's yacht and jet owners

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/26/senate-majority-pac/ad-says-senate-candidate-thom-tillis-gave-tax-brea/

CURRENT EXPENSE EXPENDITURES BY SOURCE OF FUNDS

http://apps.schools.nc.gov/pls/apex/f?p=1:32:0::NO:::

June 11th 2014

Obama's College Tuition Plan:

The One Thing Obama Didn't Say About Student Loan Repayment

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/09/320351501/the-one-thing-obama-didn-t-say-about-student-loan-repayment

Union Membership Trends in the United States

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=key_workplace

Does Government Spending on Education

Promote Growth and Schooling Returns?

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/economics/tow/papers/basu-spring2010.pdf

Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/11/why-government-spending-does-not-stimulate-economic-growth

Ten Reasons Why the "Economic Stimulus" Should Not Include Education Spending

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/01/ten-reasons-why-the-economic-stimulus-should-not-include-education-spending

Debt Clock

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The Amount Of Money Eric Cantor's Campaign Spent On Steakhouses Says It All

http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-cantor-loss-steakhouse-spending-2014-6

Venezuelan Prostitutes Earn More Selling Dollars Than Sex

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/venezuela-prostitutes-earn-more-selling-dollars-than-sex.html

Jobs available as nuclear workforce ages out

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101736120

Earnings and unemployment rates by educational attainment

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

Chart: What's the real unemployment rate?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101735031

Student loan problem an easy fix: Sen. Warren

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101748061

California court strikes down teacher tenure rules in major ruling

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101749842

Target skyrocketing college costs, not student loans: AEI

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101744260

March 7th 2014 

The Facts About Global Warming: 

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html

Satellite data shows that sea levels have not been rising faster in last 20 years

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/13/satellite-data-shows-that-sea-levels-have-not-been-rising-faster-in-last-20-years/

The Cynical Politics of Global Warming and Its Hobgoblins

http://www.visionandvalues.org/2008/06/the-cynical-politics-of-global-warming-and-its-hobgoblins/

Greenpeace co-founder: No scientific proof humans are dominant cause of warming climate

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/26/greenpeace-co-founder-no-scientific-proof-humans-are-dominant-cause-warming/

The Period Of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2014/02/24/the-period-of-no-global-warming-will-soon-be-longer-than-the-period-of-actual-global-warming/

NOAA Temperature Fraud Expands (Part 1)

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/noaa-temperature-fraud-expands-part-1/

The Big Lie Becomes Official At NOAA

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/the-big-lie-becomes-official-at-noaa/

Telegraph's Booker on the "climategate” scandal

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/28/telegraphs-booker-on-the-climategate-scandal/

Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails

http://www.examiner.com/article/hadley-cru-hacked-with-release-of-hundreds-of-docs-and-emails

Hottest year ever? Skeptics question revisions to climate data

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/10/hottest-year-ever-skeptics-question-revisions-to-climate-data/

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

Geologic temperature record

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

February 13th 2014

Venezuela Cut by S&P on Economic Policy, Decline in Reserves

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/venezuela-rating-cut-by-s-p-on-economic-policy-reserves-decline.html

Strong-Arm Policies Leave Venezuela Teetering on the Brink of Collapse

http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2013/12/17/strong-arm-policies-leave-venezuela-teetering-on-brink-collapse/

The Price of Argentina's Devaluation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/the-price-of-argentina-s-devaluation.html

Argentina's Currency Devaluation: Back to the Future

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2014/02/04-argentina-currency-devaluation-vuletin

Jobless claims post surprise jump as fourth quarter growth falls short

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101376453

CBO nearly triples estimate of working hours lost by 2021 due to Affordable Care Act

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101352868

Venezuela jails 100 'bourgeois' businessmen in crackdown

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-president-vows-no-letup-price-gouging-crackdown-010034869--sector.html