Archive for the 'Government' Category

It’s spring time. Even people who wouldn’t dream of operating a home business do turn their thoughts to making some quick cash from yard sales or garage sales. A few hours work (and it IS work) can help with the spring cleaning and make some quick cash in a short time. There’s just one problem. [...]

Jack Kemp passed away Saturday at age 73. Here is an excerpt from the page“Jack Kemp in his own words”. This commentary in particular is crucial to understand at this point in our history in the U.S. and the world.  Politicians worldwide are using the mantra of “saving the economy” to extend their power base [...]

According to AdAge, the FTC is mulling plans to monitor bloggers. You can read the article here: Bloggers Be Warned: FTC May Monitor What You Say Supposedly this would only mean that bloggers would have to be identified as “paid endorsers”. Does that mean people who receive free samples of books to review have are [...]

“How To Get Free Government Grants To Train As A Nurse If You’ve Been Laid Off” was a surprise. With all these “Stimulus Scammers” out there trying to hype the latest Congressional catastrophe, this is NOT like that other junk on the market…. those 1 in a million (or worse) “grant opportunities”. These are compiled [...]

Check out The Rise of the Underground Economy. Bottom line? This is what they really would say if they were honest – 1. Economists looked down on the unregulated, unlicensed markets of the world because they worked at state funded institutions and regulated markets, essentially, paid their salaries. Unregulated markets know economists and weather forecasters [...]

I wrote about those “Free Government Grants” . Over they years, I’ve come to consider most of them to be rip offs and jokes designed to sell information. But they are so hot right now, a CPA advertising company just emailed me asking me to run their particular version. I told them “no” and tried [...]

The people seeking Free Government Grants and Grant money are often basically looking for free money that will allow them to do whatever they want with no strings attached. In this way they are not unlike the governors of our several states who, seeing a shortfall looming, run to Washington hoping to load up on [...]

If it weren’t for the Government intervention promised, the headline that reads The Foreclosure Five would signal where bargains were to be had for pennies on the dollar if you’re into real estate investing if you’re looking for “bargains” – at least in terms of what prices were a few years ago. Though the news [...]

You don’t think of CNBC as a place where there’s any critique of big government at all. But something amazing happened the other day and it’s been circling the blogosphere and even the mainstream media to some extent. You can see the video rant here by Rick Santelli Traders on the floor actually stopped what [...]

As I asked before in the post “Will This Federal Law Destroy Your Small Business?” there’s great concern in the economic development field about this law. These are the folks who work -usually – in public “incubators” to help start new businesses or encourage growth in existing ones. In monitoring the chatter from this crowd, [...]