The debate over immigration reform often strays from sound economics, getting lost in misguided politics and faulty economic thinking. Indeed, it’s important to stay focused on the actual economics of immigration, including that immigrants overwhelmingly come to the United States seeking greater economic opportunity; they largely complement, rather than replace, native-born workers at all skill […]
In our global economy, goods and services flow across borders — and so does investment. Investors and businesses seek opportunities around the globe to enhance efficiencies and boost returns. A recent report from the U.S. Treasury Department generated some news regarding U.S. investment outflows. As was noted in a Bloomberg story: “The U.S. posted a […]
Starting and operating your own business requires a tremendous investment in time for most entrepreneurs. Still, there’s the need to occasionally get away from things, at least to some degree, to rest and re-energize. A new Gallup poll provides some interesting information on vacations for microbusiness owners with five or fewer employees. Here are a […]
There’s a great deal of political talk about tax reform these days. Whether this is mere posturing or a precursor to real legislative action is an open question, to say the least. But as the debate and discussion continues, tax reform advocates must not ignore entrepreneurs and small businesses. So here are five quick rules […]
So, how does your state stack up when it comes to imposing tax burdens relating to entrepreneurship, small business and investment? The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council just published the Small Business Tax Index 2014, which ranks the 50 states based on 21 different tax measures, including income-based tax rates, property and consumption-based tax burdens, […]
The Business Roundtable recently released its latest CEO Economic Outlook Survey. In terms of where these executives of large companies see the United State economy going over the coming six months, one could call the outlook “more of the same.” Jim McNerney — chairman of the Business Roundtable as well as chairman, president and chief […]
When it comes to evaluating economic data, expectations play a big part in the final assessment of how good or bad the numbers turn out. That’s certainly the case with third quarter data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for gross domestic product, the broad measure of goods and services produced in the […]
Various market players expected second quarter real growth in gross domestic product in the United States to come in at less than 1 percent. But growth wound up registering 1.7 percent. So, for those playing the expectations game, second-quarter growth in the broad measure of goods and services produced in the country turned out to […]
Colorado continues to rank among the top 10 business-friendly states in an annual analysis of the cost of tax systems on starting and growing small businesses. Colorado moved up two spots to eighth in the 2013 Business Tax Index calculated by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small business advocacy and research group based […]
Rather than governing with his business experience in mind, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg uses government to impose an intrusive regulatory agenda. There’s his ban on selling beverages with sugar in containers larger than 16 ounces in New York City restaurants, movie theaters and food carts. This follows a 2006 ban on trans fat […]