Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MORE
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Showing posts with label entrepreneur. Show all posts
Luke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business
Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MOREJohn Stossel: Ignorance
No wonder Cuba wallows in poverty. Last week, the New York Times reported that the Castro brothers opened a special business zone where foreign companies "would be given greater control over setting wages at factories. ... (P)roposals would be approved or rejected within 60 days." What? If I want to give someone a raise, I have to wait up ... MORE
If You Like Your Freedom, You Can Keep Your Freedom
Under Obama, U.S. freedom ranking slips below France. A new study shows shows that citizens of France now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom… Americans’ assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the ... MOREChef Emeril Lagasse Says Obama May Drive Him Broke
by Brian Preston. Government needs to kick it down a notch. Famed chef Emeril Lagasse says that it’s becoming all but impossible
to be a successful restaurateur in America today. The government just
gets in the way too much. Lagasse specifically singled out the current president’s policies. “It’s becoming a very challenging industry to become a ... MOREMelony Armstrong: My Struggle For Braiding Freedom
Government's heavy-handed employment barriers. Public officials at the federal, state and local levels chatter constantly about employment and job creation. Unfortunately, not enough of them seem concerned about the nonsensical barriers they and their predecessors erect that often stand in the way of budding entrepreneurs ... MOREHans-Herman Hoppe: Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Profit
A saga of corrupted profits. In the most fundamental sense we are all, with each of our actions, always and invariably profit-seeking entrepreneurs. Whenever we act, we employ some physical means (things valued as goods) — at a minimum our body and its standing room, but in most cases also various other, “external” things — so as to divert ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Food Trucks Have Turned the Corner
Are we at the dawn of a new era for food trucks? Food truck cuisine has often been about pushing boundaries. Think Korean tacos. But how about a cannabis-infused food truck? Earlier this year,
NPR
reported on the THC-infused pulled-pork sandwiches cooked up by
a Denver food truck. Sound like a new era for food trucks? While cannabis ... MORERichard Rahn: How Fracking Saved Obama
The only thing keeping economy afloat. Without fracking of oil and gas deposits, there would have been no economic growth in the U.S. over the past five years. Yet the oil and gas industry has been a favorite whipping boy of the environmental zealots both inside and outside of the administration. Without those brilliant entrepreneurs and ... MOREI, Dinner — A Capitalism Lesson Over Burgers And A Beer
by Todd Skelton. A learning moment. Each week, I take my little family out to dinner in a neighborhood
restaurant. It’s nothing fancy, just your standard pub fare. On one
such outing, my kids started grilling me about which charities we
support. I ask what’s behind these questions and it turns out the kids
had been learning about charitable giving ... MOREJohn Stossel: American Dreaming
Did you know that I started Facebook? Really! Well, sort of ... When I was in college at all-male Princeton, I tried to make money by adding photos to a snarky guide to neighboring girls' schools. The guide had been a profitable publishing success, and my idea was simply to add the girls' pictures. Schools like Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, ... MOREUber Faces Backlash From The New Luddites
by Steven Greenhut. Many people are familiar with "Luddites," those
early 19th century British textile workers who vandalized modern
looms and other innovative, time-saving machinery that they feared
would put them out of business – or reduce the value of their
work. I’m not the first writer to notice the resemblance between the
original Luddite ... MORE
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