I’m live-blogging the Charlotte City Council’s retreat. Follow me, also, on Twitter @marynewsom. And see my previous post: “Charlotte’s economy shows a lagging city.”
At the Charlotte City Council retreat, council member James Mitchell asked the panel of economists’ opinion of the stimulus spending.
UNCC economics professor John Connaughton said, “But for TARP we would all be selling pencils on the street corner.” We were that close to collapse, he said.
He goes on to say that if the U.S. is to regain its economic standing, “It’s not going to be in stealing manufacturing jobs from China.” Instead, in his view, it’s going to be in selling high-level services to the rest of the world, which makes an educated workforce even more important.