Two men head to Gaston court as two families prepare funerals
Six people - the oldest just 22, the youngest a 16-year-old girl - reportedly were part of a meetup in western Gaston County last week on a cold, rainy February night where the purpose included the sale of marijuana.
Before the clock struck midnight on Feb. 18, two of the men - Robert Lucas Luke Gibby, 22, of Bessemer City, and Adam Kale Wood, 19, of Kings Mountain - would be dead.
Shot in the back, according to Gaston County Assistant District Attorney Chad Smith.
Another man, 21-year-old Todd Payton Lee Waggoner of Winston-Salem, would be shot four times, possibly only surviving because he played dead, according to his Charlotte attorney Ryan Ames.
The fatal conceit of technocracy that afflicts most policymaking
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The great Austrian economist and political philosopher, Friedrich von Hayek, published
The Road to Serfdom in 1944, arguing against socialism, planning and collectivism, and in favour of individual liberty, the market system and capitalism. Much later, on the eve of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, in 1988, he published
The Fatal Conceit, which expands and builds upon arguments he had been articulating for a half-century. (This latter work was edited by philosopher William Warren Bartley, and there is a scholarly dispute as to whether he was more author than editor, with Hayek already ailing at that time.) The title of the latter work comes from a celebrated passage in
The People’s March for Jobs reaches London in May 1981 after 28 days’ walk from Liverpool. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images
Some things don’t change. Unemployment has been central to politics and culture for the best part of a century. DH Lawrence and Alan Bleasdale in Boys from the Blackstuff both wrote about the plight of Britain’s industrial working class. From Winston Churchill in the 1920s to Rishi Sunak, chancellors have been given advice on how to create jobs.
What’s more, the Treasury still frets about the cost, which is why almost every public statement from the chancellor says action will eventually be needed to bring down a budget deficit on course to reach £400bn this year. Up until now, though, the government has been spending and borrowing to prevent firms forcibly shut by lockdown restrictions from going bust and axing jobs.
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EUGENE, Ore. Jan. 21, 2021 Developing economies suffer from a paradox: they don t receive investment flows from developed economies because they lack stability and high-quality financial and lawmaking institutions, but they can t develop those institutions without foreign funds.
A study co-authored by Brandon Julio, a professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Oregon s Lundquist College of Business, found that bilateral investment treaties, commonly known as BITs, can help developing economies overcome this paradox, but only as long as those countries can demonstrate a commitment to property and contract rights.
Julio published the research, A BIT Goes a Long Way: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Cross-border Mergers, in a paper that published online Dec. 11 ahead of print in the