March 14, 2011
There has been little to be optimistic about on the immigration reform front, of late. The Dream Act, which would create a path to citizenship for children of illegal ...
March 4, 2011
In his 2012 budget, President Barack Obama proposed giving the Small Business Administration $985 million. That has set off bickering between the SBA's supporters, who...
February 24, 2011
Small businesses in the U.S. that produce any kind of manufactured goods or technology products are at a significant disadvantage these days. The Internet has made it ...
February 22, 2011
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama targeted the corporate tax system as something he'd like to reform. He suggested the approach ...
February 11, 2011
America believes it will always lead the world in innovation and entrepreneurship. It expects to keep coming up with Big Ideas—such as personal computers, iPods,...
February 8, 2011
Our federal policymakers need to recognize that they've gotten us into a bind when it comes to employment. When the economy tanked in 2008, they focused—rightly ...
February 1, 2011
America's small business owners have long endured a broken credit-card and debit-card processing market and its attendant ills. Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), and issuing ...
January 21, 2011
The media is full of anecdotal reports about small businesses that had bank loans and lines of credit before the Great Recession—and now have neither. While ...
January 11, 2011
With news that opponents of the new health-care law are actively trying to repeal the landmark legislation, small business owners have great reason to be concerned. ...
January 7, 2011
In March, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a 2,000-plus-page law designed to dramatically change how health insurance is ...
December 30, 2010
(This column has been corrected to identify the author as a former managing partner at SoftBank Capital.) Small businesses will play a pivotal role in creating jobs ...
December 22, 2010
Tax breaks, bailouts, and stimulus packages for big business are the most commonly prescribed remedies for economic growth. Policymakers believe that such companies as...
December 21, 2010
The Small Business Administration recently announced two new programs that will increase lending to businesses in disadvantaged areas and to those headed by minorities...
December 10, 2010
It probably won't surprise you to learn 61 percent of Americans say they would prefer self-employment to working for someone else, a higher share than in 25 European ...
December 7, 2010
'Tis the season for gift-giving. Which makes it the season for gift-buying. Which makes it the season for gift-selling and, by extension, gift-marketing. December is ...
November 30, 2010
The Federal Reserve recently launched the second round of its policy of quantitative easing, known as QE2, to stimulate the economy and reduce the chance the U.S.will ...
November 17, 2010
The performance gap between women-owned businesses and their male counterparts is well-documented. Yet the Obama Administration would rather spout rhetoric about how ...
October 29, 2010
In a Huffington Post column this summer, Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation argued that generating more startups is the answer to our nation's unemployment ...
October 28, 2010
As midterm elections draw near, many small business owners like myself are faced with daunting challenges that are affecting the future of the companies we run. Rising...
October 15, 2010
The National Bureau of Economic Research announced last month that the Great Recession ended in June 2009. According to the experts who date the business cycle, the ...
October 8, 2010
Last month's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, with 2,150 mostly young women, was the largest gathering ever of women in computing in industry, academia,...
October 5, 2010
Economic performance is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy. If business owners believe that the economy will get better in the future, they act in ways that lead to ...
September 21, 2010
President Barack Obama recently proposed to let businesses immediately deduct the entire cost of expenditures made from now until the end of 2011 as a way to stimulate...
September 7, 2010
Through the debate on reforming health insurance for small businesses, an important piece of information was missing: Policymakers had little data on why only some ...
August 24, 2010
Another over-40 softball season has concluded. My team performed as expected: We were 3-15. I'm feeling every inning of those 15 losses. My hamstrings ache and my ...
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