Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Lawrence J. McQuillan: The United States Of America Now Has Less Economic Freedom Than Chile, Jordan, Or Taiwan

The verdict on hope and change is in.    Today the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, released the 2015 Economic Freedom of the World Report (pdf) and it’s bad news for the United States, where economic freedom is falling. The U.S. ranks only 16th in economic freedom trailing Chile, Jordan, and Taiwan. The EFW Report measures the level  ... MORE

John Stossel: Cutting Red Tape

Regulation strangulation. I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity — regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression. I understand why candidates don't talk about it: Regulation is    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: The Struggle For Economic Liberty

The war against Uber, Lyft and consumers.  Where public utility commissions decide who will have the right to go into the taxi business, a prospective entrant must apply for a "certificate of public convenience and necessity." Lawyers for the incumbent taxi owners, most often corporate owners or owner associations, appear at the hearing to argue that ... MORE

VIDEO: The Government's Covert War On Small Business


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John Stossel: Breaking The Rules

Innovators are the true public servants.      Humans need rules. Rules make life more predictable. But when the rules multiply, the world needs some rule-breakers. The creator of the underground website Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced to life in prison for creating an online space that allowed people to use bitcoins to buy and sell things.   ... MORE

More Unemployment Ahead As Minimum-Wage Offensive Will Likely Speed Arrival Of Robot-Powered Restaurants

by Lydia DePillis.   Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as opposed to the 30 or 40 there today — because preparing the food just took a lot more doing. “When I first started at McDonald’s making 85 cents an  ... MORE

Kristie Eshelman: Big Government Is Hurting Millennials

Is political greed gobbling up America's future?       USA Today recently pointed out: One in seven young people neither works nor goes to school. This group of Americans is roughly the size of Minnesota's population. And today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its job numbers report. While the youth unemployment rate is down    ... MORE

Stephen Moore: Five Myths About Capital Gains Taxes

Hillary's economic wrecking ball.    The late, great Jack Kemp, an architect of the Reagan tax cuts, used to say, "Without capital, capitalism is just another ism." Capital is the plants, the machinery, the computers and trucks that businesses invest in to become productive and efficient providers of goods and services. So it's strange that last       ... MORE

Pragmatism Is Impractical In The Long Run

by Jaana Woiceshyn. Pragmatism—compromising principles to achieve goals—is prevalent not just among politicians (think of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran). It is also a common hazard among business people, many of whom think that to succeed in business you have to compromise principles. It’s OK to compromise honesty and fake a little,     ... MORE

Costs From Regulations Pile Up, Hurt Small Business Profits

by Joyce M. Rosenberg.   Govt's war on capitalism. It's getting more expensive to be an employer and small business owners say that's making it harder for them to make money. The health care law, minimum wage increases and paid sick leave laws in some states and cities are increasing costs. Small companies also face the prospect of higher overtime  ... MORE

Starbucks Announces New Effort To Break Law

by Roger Clegg.    A plan to adopt racial hiring practices. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with more than a dozen companies in a commitment to increase hiring of young, minority workers over the next three years.” It’s unclear from the article exactly how race and ethnicity are to be used in the hiring process.    ... MORE

Fast Food Restaurant Responds To Minimum Wage Hike

by Kaitlyn Schallhorn.    Some raise prices, others layoff workers. As San Francisco is set to raise its minimum wage to $15 over the next few years, Chipotle raised the price of its food. According to Investors Business Daily, Chipotle in San Francisco raised its prices as much as 14.4 percent as the Golden Gate City raised its minimum wage by 14 percent.    ... MORE

John Stossel: Heroes, Villains

The real heroes of society.    Have you seen the new Jurassic Park movie, "Jurassic World?" It had the biggest opening of any movie in history. The movie tells how a reckless biotech company releases dinosaurs that kill its customers. Its tale of heroes vs. villains made me think about how America has changed since our independence, the anniversary of  ... MORE

Libertarians Are Pro-Market, Not Pro-Business

by David S. D'Amato.    Big difference. There is a popular narrative that treats pro-market and pro-business essentially as synonyms, thus seeing the most libertarian-leaning candidates as those most favored by major corporate interests. The idea is that big business both desires and benefits from an environment of total laissez faire, of cutthroat  ... MORE

George Will: The 'Progressive' Burger Company

Social responsibility is a poor substitute for taste.  In January, McDonald’s said kale would never replace lettuce on its burgers. In May, however, it said it will test kale in a breakfast meal. Kale might or might not cause construction workers to turn at 6 a.m. into McDonald’s. McDonald’s also says its milk will soon be without artificial     ... MORE

New York Democrats Begin To Realize Minimum Wage Means Maximum Unemployment For Low-Skill Workers

by Novell Rose.   It is not about politics, it is about math. It happened in Seattle — pay goes up, business goes down. As Western Journalism reported about the city’s $15-per-hour minimum wage law, an article in Seattle Magazine raised the red flag about the red ink a number of local restaurants would be facing because of the increasing labor     ... MORE