Jan 29, 2021
"Even markets can be irrational," Senator Kevin Cramer said on this episode of Plain Talk.
He was talking about activist investing which has ballooned stock prices for companies like video game retailer Game Stop and movie theater chain AMC, hitting bear investors who had placed bets on those prices declining right in...
Jan 28, 2021
"This bill changes the legal guidelines."
That's what former North Dakota Treasurer Kelly Schmidt had to say of a proposal, currently before the Legislature in Bismarck, which would invest 20 percent of the billions in the state's Legacy Fund in North Dakota businesses and infrastructure.
Private entrepreneurs could...
Jan 26, 2021
President Joe Biden's brand new administration has already taken swift action, by way of an executive order, on all manner of policy fronts.
One notable area is energy, where Biden has already withdrawn an already-issued permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Now he's expected to sign a new order halting new oil and gas...
Jan 25, 2021
Rob and Jay talk about a bizarre DUI case before the North Dakota Supreme Court as well as a bill that would reimburse lawmakers for meals.
Jan 20, 2021
North Dakota's Legacy Fund, since it was created by the Legislature and approved by voters in 2010, has turned a slice of the state's oil tax revenues into a nearly $8 billion balance.
That balance is invested in stocks and bonds across the nation, and the world, including in some ways that, as a moral matter, we...