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Destroying Businesses Is Our Business

May 7, 2014 • Top Story • 1420

The Brookings Institute is out with a new finding that may not surprise anyone. They looked at the rates of new business creation and destruction since the late 70s and have found that the American economy is at the lowest point of entrepreneurial-ism in the last three decades. The most startling discovery focused on the last three years, wherein businesses where going under at a much higher rate than they were being created, so it’s not just jobs we’re not creating, it’s entire businesses.

Links

-> U.S. Businesses Are Being Destroyed Faster Than They’re Being Created

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Sen. Introduces Bill To Test Out Taxing Motorists For Every Mile They Drive

-> Chinese E-commerce Giant Alibaba Files For Massive IPO

-> Even Congress Can’t Stop Obama On Global Warming

-> 4 Countries That Are Leaving Silicon Valley In Their Tracks

-> The Creepy Future of Wearable Tech in the Workplace

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The Road To Recovery Is Paved With Destructive Agendas And Political Greed, How’s The Ride?

May 6, 2014 • Top Story • 1326

The long road to economic recovery has been a tough one, the U.S. economy barely grew in the first quarter as exports tumbled and businesses accumulated stocks at the slowest pace in nearly a year. Most economists think things are going to stay at a slow as they were in the first quarter well into the year, just in time for election season and that means more bad decisions. Bad decisions will be made by pols vying for offices they probably don’t deserve and We the People will suffer the consequences, hang on for the ride.

Links

-> Obama Recovery Now as Long as Average Post-WWII Recovery

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Pragmatism, Planet D.C., And Planet Earth

-> JPMorgan Fixed-Income Warning A Bad Sign For Wall St.

-> How The Ground Is Shifting In The ETF Industry

-> Eight Ways To Get Your Emails Opened

-> Venture Capital Is In a Recovery, Not a Bubble

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Shadowy Figures May Be Lurking In You Portfolio…

May 5, 2014 • Top Story • 1816

Last Winter, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed a very invasive and shadowy idea called CARDS. It stands for Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System. It’s a fanciful way of saying ‘We want to automatically spying on every trade you make.’ The premise is that every now and again traders of lest that perfect repute make some shady/illegal deals and that can’t happen, but what if there was a way to automatically see every transaction at once and scan them in real-time for bad behavior? Behold CARDS. What could go wrong?

Links

-> Get Ready for Regulators to Peer Into Your Portfolio

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Shocking US Jobs Data Impugns Recovery, Fed Tapering

-> Switzerland Urges U.S. to Treat Its Banks Fairly in Tax Probe

-> Here’s What’s Worked And What Hasn’t Worked In 2014

-> Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet, But You Can Invest

-> How To Stop Your Office From Zapping Your Productivity

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Feds Expand Power To Regulate Our Lives, But What Else Is New?

May 2, 2014 • Top Story • 1417

There are a lot of startling things coming out of the White House’s new transportation spending bill, including expanding the authority of the Department of Transportation and toll on federal highways. The expansion of authority includes the power to enter private property under the guise of ‘validating’ miles-per-gallon claims, that has a very ominous feel to it. The tolls on federal highways is equally disturbing because it doesn’t make any sense. We are facing a sluggish economy that has squeaked by on anemic growth and now the WH wants to allow tolls? Most of the products that the middle class consumers move on those roads, can the middle class really sustain another hike in costs?

Links

-> Federal Regulators Could Be Empowered To Enter Your Property To Inspect Your Car’s MPGs

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> White House Opens Door To Tolls On Interstate Highways, Removing Long-Standing Prohibition

-> Obama-Biden Vacation Tab Reaches $40 Million

-> Half of Illinois Residents Would Leave the Land of Lincoln (If They Could)

-> 30 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Bad

-> The PaperFold Could Be The Folding, Modular, Multi-Screen Future Of Smartphones

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When Government Agencies Gain Power, We Lose Rights

May 1, 2014 • Top Story • 1329

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the EPA more authority over our lives, this time using the guise of pollution traveling across state lines. Sure, smog traveling from one state to another is probably a bad thing, but when the government gives the government more power, it costs US the right to handle out own business. If Ohio is polluting the air of Indiana, then Indiana can take it up in court and let it play out. We don’t need the EPA policing our businesses in the name of ‘Global Warming’ or whatever it’s being called now.

Links

-> Supreme Court Victory Gives EPA MORE Power

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> President’s 2014 Golf Outings Cost Taxpayers Nearly $3M

-> Wisconsin to Appeal Voter-ID Ruling

-> Americans Tire of Solving Everyone’s Problems

-> Study: Snobby Salespeople Make You Want To Buy More Stuff

-> One Kind of Customer That Trumps All the Rest

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Taxes Are For Losers – Will Someone Tell The Losers In Charge?

April 30, 2014 • Top Story • 1327

Online sales tax ruins business, just ask the folks at Amazon. In a new study from The Ohio State University, research shows that companies facing online sales tax lose almost 10% of their revenue. Where does that revenue go? Not to brick and mortar stores, those dollars go to other online businesses not subject to online sales tax. So while states pitch this as an opportunity to ‘protect’ local brick and mortar stores, the reality is that this is a money grab aimed at filling the budget gaps they created by running their states like morons.

Links

-> Retailers That Collect Online Sales Tax Lose Business

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Obama EPA Chief Says Pollution Is Racist

-> Men Who Work Full-Time Earn Less Than 40 Years Ago

-> Tripping Over Income Inequality With Intellectual Shoelaces

-> Toyota Says ‘Later’ To California, ‘Howdy’ To Texas

-> 12 Mind-Blowing Facts About Apple That Will Remind You Just How Gigantic The Company Really Is

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…That You’re Paying For 1 in 5 Families

April 29, 2014 • Top Story • 1556

Being poor isn’t fun, but working 9-5 isn’t fun either, so why do 20% of families in this country get to benefit from the other 80 percent’s labors? In the name of fairness, that’s why. Or so called ‘fairness.’ Fairness has become the mantra for liberal agendas. Agendas aimed at growing a dependency on government handouts, then scaring those core dependents into thinking their way of life is going to change, ie their handouts will end and they’ll have to work like the rest of US. Anyone with a brain would tell that this model will lead to a complete collapse, but maybe that’s what they want?

Links

-> In 20% of American Families, No One Works

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> BOMBSHELL INDICTMENT: Rep Michael Grimm Hid Over $1 Million From IRS By Hiring Illegals

-> Netflix Nets Streaming Deal With Verizon

-> Here’s Why Everyone Wants To Be In The Stock Market Today

-> Nokia Gets A New CEO And New Hopes, Microsoft Gets A Poorly Performing Smartphone Business

-> Google’s 25 Rules For Building A Better Mobile Site

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Would You Believe The UN Report On Climate Change Was Altered For Political Reasons?

April 28, 2014 • Top Story • 1444

Hard to believe, right? It’s hard to fathom that anyone would fabricate or omit pieces of data that would discredit the notion of climate change as a big deal. But what is even more startling is that a lead author of the UN’s big, scary report on doomsday climate scenarios claimed the report was altered/edited for political reasons on Friday, and the whole weekend went by without anyone calling for his head. You would think if there would be a major rebuttal if it wasn’t true…

Links

-> Lead Author Claims U.N. Climate Change Report Was Rewritten For Political Reasons

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> In NYC, A $185M Tunnel That Leads Nowhere

-> Comcast To Lose 3.9 Million Subscribers As Part Of Cable Deal

-> Chase Closing Accounts Of Porn Stars: Report

-> Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet, But You Can Invest

-> What Is The Best Country In The World To Work?

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Illinois Politics Scams It’s Way Into Presidential Library History

April 25, 2014 • Top Story • 1457

It’s no surprise that a state where 4 of its last 7 governors were convicted and imprisoned for running scams of their own, that the push for a presidential library in Illinois has started with a scam. Illinois Speaker of the House, Mike Madigan, is allegedly as corrupt as they come and this past week is a prime example of such allegations. When a House committee in Illinois convened without it’s Republican representation, the committee’s chairman jumped at the chance to approve a controversial $100m spending plan for the Barack Obama Presidential Library to be built in Chicago. The best part, the chairman -with the backing and assumed guidance of Mike Madigan- lied about the vote, calling it a unanimous ‘Yes’ vote. How can people not in attendance vote yes for something they don’t want? They can’t but in Illinois, when Dark Lord Madigan says jump, the rest of the party pushes over the opposition and jumps……up and down on them.

Links

-> Obama’s Presidential Library Bid Begins in a ‘Cloud Of Controversy’

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> Hypocrite: Michelle Obama’s Favorite Food is Pizza and Fries

-> 53% Think Neither Political Party Represents the American People

-> America’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens in 2014

-> New Search Tool Is Designed To Do What Google Cannot

-> 5 Free Apps For Mapping Your Mind

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Complaining About Inequality Is A Fools Task: It’s Not A Conspiracy, It’s Life

April 24, 2014 • Top Story • 1624

Many people in this country pound their fists and yell real loud, calling on those that will listen to ‘fix’ the inequality that persists in society. But what is inequality? Is it being born in a better zip code, going to a better school, living a better life and feeling guilty for making use of every advantage? Or is it a fact of life? The truth is, life is unfair, every good father or mother has told their child this and it’s a base fact of existence. There will always be someone better, stronger, faster, smarter, but the doesn’t make it unfair for both to exist, it’s life.

Links

-> Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter

-> 10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

-> UAW’s Stand-Down In Tennessee May Preface Its Ultimate Demise

-> What Thomas Piketty’s Popularity Tells Us About The Liberal Press

-> Feds Spending $1.1M to Boost Community Outreach in Afghanistan, Though Sports, Meals, Entertainment

-> How Brands Can Win At The Sharing Economy

-> Marketing Trend: Shift to Native Advertising Explained

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Destroying Businesses Is Our Business

The Road To Recovery Is Paved With Destructive Agendas And Political Greed, How’s The Ride?

Shadowy Figures May Be Lurking In You Portfolio…

Feds Expand Power To Regulate Our Lives, But What Else Is New?

When Government Agencies Gain Power, We Lose Rights

Taxes Are For Losers – Will Someone Tell The Losers In Charge?

…That You’re Paying For 1 in 5 Families

Would You Believe The UN Report On Climate Change Was Altered For Political Reasons?

Illinois Politics Scams It’s Way Into Presidential Library History

Complaining About Inequality Is A Fools Task: It’s Not A Conspiracy, It’s Life

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