Businessmen are usually more adept to reading new investment trends upon which they make thoughtful amends, whether policies stifle or facilitate current and future investments, and what stable measures are needed to guard against any assault in forging lasting investments. ...

Our economy is wheezing on its deathbed. Since it's dying from economic malpractice administered by the quacks (non-economist economists), the cognoscenti here pretty much figure the CNMI is going to revert to the Pacific island mean. Folly, not hope, is the theme of our story.

Argue with a traditional indigenous person about the merits of Article 12, as I have, and all you are likely to face is an intractable position beyond the scope of pure reason. Land, they maintain, is not equity; it does not represent a form of “property asset.” It is a sacred...

The CNMI gross domestic product in 1998 was between $854,812,000-$1,0007,131,000, according to a study made by the International Programs Center.