Archive for the 'Government' Category

Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit (Independent Studies in Political Economy) is an excellent work to read this Labor Day!
The authors/editors are: Alvaro Vargas Llosa who is the director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute; a lecturer on world economic and political issues at such venues as the […]

The word “Ultimate” is used so much in internet marketing that it’s become a cliche. This post isn’t about what you think it is. There’s not even anything to buy. Unless it’s buying the line of the political leaders in both parties who - to various degrees - think they know everything about everything.
Free people […]

This is the type of announcement that’s common in the work at home newspaper article world…
It’s the work at home business equivalent to “don’t pay to learn how to stuff envelopes at home” boilerplate.
“Check with your local zoning authorities”
I really never quite understand by things like a “home medical transcription service”… do they mean a […]

A lone accountant has won over the IRS regarding how they tax the cash that results when a mutual life insurance company becomes a stock company.
If you’ve ever had a life insurance policy that - because the company demutualized created a taxable event for you - you may be owed a refund.

I was enthusiastic about The Pickens Plan. It felt as if an entrepreneur was trying to make a change.
His legislative agenda seemed to be about removing barriers to innovation.
It should be about him investing his and his investors private funds in the hope of gain.
But there’s already monkey business afoot … $5 billion in California […]

I guess all those online ads saying “Learn how I made $45,223 in 17 Days” made the IRS go “Hmmm…where was our check from all that?”
On the Wall Street Journal online
If all your money comes from affiliate networks usually they will send you a 1099. But if you’ve been selling through Ebay or other […]

Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail […]

You mean telework isn’t working for everyone? Well, we knew you can’t exactly fight fires from home. You have to show up for that job. Hmmm… where else might telecommuting not work too well. According to the FederalTimes.com one big problem area is when walk in customers can’t get service.
Housing and Urban Development […]

As you’ll note from the blurb,  it’s a variety of factors at work - demand for employees, looming exodus of the older “Baby Boomer” generation, the demand to be “environmentally friendly”, etc.  Some places want to cut down on traffic, cut down on the need for real estate for parking garages, etc. Now may be […]

William Douglass who writes the Douglass Report recently noted that Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is trying to sell it’s weight loss product called “Alli” as an “over the counter” weight loss tool.
Like big companies everywhere, they’ve decided that a great way to sell more of their stuff is to make sure that consumers can’t buy anyone […]