Though I am still suffering from my addiction to trading in the stock market (see my twitter feed to follow my compulsive trading), I continue to celebrate Small Business Week by announcing my recent investments in small business. I have found and invested in another new small business...

It's slipping under the radar with all the news out of Washington the last several days, but this week is the 48th Annual Small Business Week. And as we continue to look for ways out of the economic mess we're in as a nation, it's worth calling attention...

Your studies are complete, and as you start the mad dash to find a post-grad job, I hope you don't mind me offering a piece of advice that you may not have considered:

Now is one of the best times in your life to start a business.

One of...

I, and I believe a majority of Americans, are delighted to see that the banks, insurance companies and auto manufacturers which were so recently bailed out by the U. S. tax payer are doing so well. It seems like only yesterday they were threatening to die and bring down Western...

There has never been a better time to start a business than right now. To help revive our nation's economy, one of the most patriotic acts you can do is to create a job for yourself -- and eventually for others too.

Many Americans have big dreams, but they don't...

Let's start with the fact that I own 5,000 shares of Google.

Google makes 18% more money on 27% more sales the first quarter of 2011 than the first quarter of 2010 -- and Wall Street takes the value of the stock down $48!

What...

As chronicled in my book Raising Eyebrows, A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right, from the beginning of Tweezerman, the company that became my big success, I was empowering my employees.

My story included me being exploited by powerful men whose orbit I had fallen...

Since the uprisings in the Middle East and the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis have pushed the problems of the American worker and the U.S. economy off the news, I feel compelled as someone who was deeply involved in the Iraq War to stake out my position...

Guantanamo is a situation created by Republicans, solutions for which are opposed by Republicans and used by Republicans as another unfair charge against Obama.

The Bush administration used a piece of a foreign country from which the host nation has been trying to evict us for over...

If you are wondering why the right to collective bargaining is so important for union workers here is a story about my father.

My dad, Aldo, was a Longshoreman in Brooklyn from 1955 to 2001. In 1978 when the shippers wanted to containerize the docks they were going to...

Ken Auletta at the New Yorker is saying that the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post is Tim Armstrong's "Hail Mary" pass for AOL. Since yesterday's announcement AOL's stock has been failing towards its yearly lows of $19.52 now at $20.50 as I write this. I say this...

Now is always the best time to do something. Moreover, there has never been a better time to start a business. People are fed up with the large corporate take over of our economy. Given a choice, most would rather do business with their neighbor than some company that vacuums...

Recently I was asked to teach an hour-long class to seniors at my Brooklyn-based high school alma mater, Bishop Loughlin, for career day. I agreed to do it, thinking I might inspire some young people to start and operate their own small business, as I myself had done at their...

As my book, Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right (John Wiley & Sons) hits the bookstores, I thought I would share some practical advice for running and starting a low-cost, no-overhead business with the other compulsive capitalists out there. It's a business anyone with extra...

In June, I had the opportunity to interview Mohammed al-Dayni, an elected member of the Council of Representatives to the Iraqi Parliament and a collaborator of mine in an effort to negotiate a cease fire between Iraqi insurgents and the Coalition forces, who is now charged...

It has been 19 days since I first reported the situation of Iraqi Member of Parliament, Mohammed al-Daini. His nephew and bodyguard had been picked up. Then using their confessions, the Iraq Government charged Mohammed with being responsible for the April 12, 2007 suicide bombing in the Parliament cafeteria....

The United States may be leaving Iraq, but we should not be abandoning the Iraqi people. Particularly those who have put their lives on the line to rebuild their country in peace. Particularly someone like Mohammed al-Daini, a member of the Iraqi Parliament and critic of the Maliki government who...

Are you feeling frustrated? Would you like to get involved somehow in this Presidential campaign beyond writing a check for your favorite candidate?

Do you have some time and skills that might be employed to increase the probability that the next President's administration is comprised of the "best and...

If we did not have the Internet, the world would be falling into tyranny, rather than out of it. As the mega corporations gobble up all of the mainstream media outlets in the United States, the American people only hear the news that serves the corporate interest. (Today very few...

August 23, 2007

Bush says Iraqi government should do more, but its future is up to Iraq's people.

In Amman, Iraqi Nationalists were cheering. In Baghdad, Iraqis were shooting their guns into the sky celebrating what they read as a seismic shift in U.S. support of the despised Maliki Government....