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Did you notice this story in the LA Times? The subheading reads: “Some owners say the cost of testing for toxic lead and phthalates will shut their businesses. The law goes into effect Feb. 10.” It could have dramatic effects on your business if you have a consignment shop reselling children’s products, sell such products [...]

Here’s an excellent post by Ernesto Sirolli: Horse Manure and the next Entrepreneurial Revolution. While we have spent millions bailing out the auto industry (just before BO drives a tent peg into its head with the latest emission standards!), we are stifling the people who might actually help us dig out of this hole: the [...]

photo credit: surface to air As Dane says so well, it’s up to entrepreneurs to generate wealth. Government can only command, transfer and pilfer the wealth others create. In case you missed it: President-elect Barack Obama has put forward a $775 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” to create 3 to 4 million new jobs. [...]

Business Week asks: Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Of course people have made this observation for DECADES, but as in the story of the “Emperor’s New Clothes”, it took someone politically incorrect to shout out the facts so that suddenly everyone recognized the truth. People have been shouting that the “Emperor has no clothes” [...]

It used to be that only Sex Offenders were tracked by GPS, now Gov. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon wants everybody tracked by GPS and taxed based on how much mileage they put on their vehicle. It’s amazing to see politicians whine and moan about us using oil, but then as people seek alternatives like biodiesel [...]

Ohio must be the state for Government crazies these days. “Joe the Plumber” was the first to get the as yet lightly punished police state treatment after he dared question the Presidential candidate Obama, and now this a home based co-op is raided by heavy hande, black clad dolts with weapons raised – over a [...]

Rep. Louie Gohmert has a good idea according to Jonah Goldberg. Since we’re throwing all this money around, and giving it to “suits” on Wall Street is doing no discernable good except to keep funding their insanity, let’s give it to taxpayers! But rather than blow money on a lavish reenactment of the New Deal, [...]

Credit card companies are slashing credit limits just to protect themselves from the worsening economy. There are many businesses – home businesses and others – that get their start up “financing” through credit cards. If that’s you, brace yourself if you haven’t gotten one of these notices in the mail. The credit card industry is [...]

According to USA Today, gas is under $2 per gallon in many metro areas. In some areas, there’s even a PRICE WAR going on. Here’s what one station owner had to say: “In the Indianapolis market, some competitors were so eager to go below $2 that we had a price war,” says Jay Ricker, who [...]

I remember growing up in the country where people had home based businesses and sold firearms to hunters. I’d wondered why I was seeing fewer of these work at home businesses. Federal bureaucracy. Now they are cutting into the business of a software company! Even the IRS didn’t steal Turbo Tax! Listen, if someone from [...]