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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 [...]

I was visiting Clickbank’s site today and found this notice:
New York state has implemented a new law that requires online retailers with affiliates located in New York state to collect sales tax from New York residents. Therefore, effective 2008-06-01 we are collecting sales tax on all sales made to residents of the state of New [...]

The Oregonian reports that a “Guerilla Marketer” is getting attacked by the proverbial 500 pound “Gorilla” of City Hall: Portland sues Jobdango over sidewalk chalk graffiti
The regional job search website Jobdango.com put hundreds of chalk advertisements on the sidewalk promoting their website. You can see some of their non-chalk advertising here. As you can [...]

You know the old saying… “If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, well that’s news.”
By that definition, this is news. The man is biting the dog so to speak.
Ford sues to collect interest $445 million is sought from IRS
When  you’re down to $40 billion in cash [...]

Entrepreneurs seeking to do market research, improve their business processes, or otherwise in search of knowledge are finding a new ally in the Public Library. The Public Library, thought to be done in by the Internet, is morphing into a new kind of entity to adapt to the communities they serve.
This is a link to [...]