Food Trucks Owners Say They're Being Hassled By The NYPD
Some food truck owners near 6th Ave. say they are being forced out by the NYPD. "They are not giving us summons yet but they are shooing us away and giving out warnings. That's bad for business," said...
View ArticleCan Everyone Become a Billionaire?
I'm going to tell you something that Barack Obama doesn't understand. And because he doesn't understand it, our country is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when we cannot afford to...
View ArticleSteven Kurlander: Small business volunteers deserve a little slack from...
In terms of employment and wealth, the U.S. economy is shaped primarily by small businesses. According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses employ over half of private sector...
View ArticleEarn Black Belt Unemployment
Take a look at this black belt Im wearing people. You think anyone wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearin this bad boy? Its time for unemployed Americans to embrace capitalistic...
View ArticleWill College Dropouts Save America?
I TYPED these words on a computer designed by Apple, co-founded by the college dropout Steve Jobs. The program I used to write it was created by Microsoft, started by the college dropouts Bill Gates...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Taxes on Entrepreneurs
As an accountant, I have a unique vantage point to observe how entrepreneurs change their decisions based on tax policy. My focus as a business advisor is making businesses more profitable first, then...
View Article6 Rags-to-Riches Millionaires
From Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs to J.K. Rowling, entrepreneurial success stories are the stuff from which American dreams are made. Much like these famous names, the six self-made millionaires we're...
View ArticleEduardo Saverin doesn't owe us anything (Is Facebook co-founder a...
When Brazilian-born entrepreneur Eduardo Saverin, one of the founders of Facebook, renounced his U.S. citizenship, allegedly to avoid paying millions -- or is it billions -- in taxes ahead of the...
View ArticleResolved: The problems of the future are too great for the entrepreneurs of...
Good evening, Mr. President, esteemed members for the proposition, and ladies and gentlemen. I am truly honored to be here tonight for this first Silicon Valley Oxford Union debate. I am particularly...
View ArticleAccording to President Obama, Entrepreneurs Don’t Build Businesses
Last night, President Barack Obama delivered some telling remarks to a fire station full of people in Roanoke, Virgina. Ill save you the trouble of reading the (long and uninspired) speech and provide...
View ArticleThe arrogance of a man who has built nothing
To call Barack Obama arrogant is an understatement. To call him clueless about the lives of real Americans is the absolute defense of truth. To call his mouth the best friend conservatives may have...
View ArticleAre Conservatives Really Misrepresenting President Obama’s Remarks on...
A couple of days ago, I posted a blog criticizing President Obama over remarks that I perceived to be insulting toward entrepreneurs. In particular, I quoted the following excerpt from his speech: If...
View ArticleYes, Mr. President we owe our success to others... in the energy industry
This past week the President made what seemed like an outlandish claim at the time, that those folks that are successful in this country owe their success to others. Mr. President you are right in more...
View ArticleTeenager not allowed to sell hot dogs now homeless
Nathan Duszynski, a 13-year-old whose hot dog cart was shut down by city officials in Holland, Mich., is now homeless, along with his disabled parents. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy first...
View ArticleGOP's On-Target Convention Theme: "We Built This City"
Ideology: The battle is on between entrepreneurship and crony socialism, between candidates who believe innovative risk-takers create jobs and an administration that believes all blessings flow from...
View ArticleRomney gives shout-out to 'women entrepreneurs'
On the road with Mitt Romney in Ohio today, Ginger Gibson flags some non-standard sections in the candidate's stump speech, specifically mentioning women in business: "Just a word to the women...
View Article“You Didn’t Build That” Isn’t Going Away: It doesn’t...
The official theme of the GOP convention Wednesday night was "We Can Change That," but that didnt stop several of the speakers from revisiting Tuesdays theme, the base-rallying battle cry: We Built...
View ArticleThe Town-Gown Connection (What makes American cities grow?)
What makes cities grow? This question is the subject of countless magazine articles peddling lists of best cities and is fodder for consulting firms looking to sell advice. But in reality, the most...
View ArticleVideos: “You didn’t build that,” revisited [HILARIOUS!!]
While Democrats have insisted that Republicans built their entire convention around something the president never actually said and whatnot, there were certainly enough entrepreneurial, hardworking,...
View Article2 charts that show the very heart of the U.S. economy is in trouble
(GRAPH AT LINK)Entrepreneurs and the innovation they generate are the beating heart of the U.S. economy. Or at least they have been in the past. But the heart of Americas economy isnt doing so...
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