Businesses

Taxing the Rich Will Not Solve the Problem

Peter Morgan | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Deficit, Taxes, Businesses, Economic Crisis, Investment, Economy, Employment, Banks, Taxing the Wealthy, Taxpayers, Taxing the Rich, Business News
Peter Morgan

Money always does something. It is always being used to enable the functions an economy needs. By taxing the rich, all that is achieved is a transfer of wealth from the private sector to the public sector.

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Businesses Boost Orders For Equipment, Machinery In August

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Businesses, Video, Business Equipment, Business Investment 2011, Business Communication Equipment, Business Computers, Business News

WASHINGTON — Companies ordered more machinery, computers and communication equipment in August, a positive sign for the slumping U.S. economy. ...

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Is Higher Education More Like a Business? No, Business Is More Like Higher Ed

Michael Bastedo, Ph.D. | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Businesses, Universities Business Tactics, Business, Businesses Universities, Business News
Michael Bastedo, Ph.D.

With college costs rising and state budgets at the breaking point, everyone is talking about how to make colleges and universities run more like businesses. But the real trend? Businesses are becoming more like research universities.

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Blistering Heat Wave Stressing Nation's Power Grid

AP | By JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Energy, Power Grid, Heat Wave 2011, Businesses, Air Conditioning, Heat Wave, Green News, Homeowners, Weather, Power, Green News

NEW YORK -- A lengthy, blistering heat wave that is blanketing the eastern half of the United States is putting significant stress on the nation's pow...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Relief For Businesses? Property Rents To Continue To Decline

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fitch Ratings, Rent, Retail, Cmbs, Retail Rents, Commercial Real Estate, Businesses, Store Rents, Financial Crisis, Fisa, Small Businesses, Business News

Property rents for businesses will continue their downward fall this year, a bright spot for retailers facing a difficult economic environment, accord...

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Federal Bankruptcy Filings Are Up By 34.5%

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Businesses, Personal Finances, Businesses, Bankruptcy, Figures, Financial Crisis, Federal Bankruptcies, Bankruptcy Rates, Bankruptcies by State, Bankruptcy Filings by State, Personal Finance, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP/HuffPost)-- Bankruptcy filings in federal courts jumped by more than one-third this year, as businesses and individuals struggled to re...

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Earthquake To Cost Haiti's Economy At Least 15% Of GDP

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Walt Disney, Amex, Credit Agricole, Lowe's, Western Union, Business Community, Bofa, Coprporate Donations, Wells Fargo, Tesco, Businesses, Digicel, Ups, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Economy, Visa, World Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Disney, Foundations, Business News

The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation's economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice presi...

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"Get Your Creative On" (A Friendly Suggestion)

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theo-Van-Gogh, Good Branding, Creativity, Lucid Incorporated, Businesses, Bad Branding, Design, Starbucks, Business News
Richard Laermer

In many firms creativity is seen to be an add-on rather than a must-have and is treated with Rodney Dangerfield levels of respect.

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What Industries Will Benefit From An Obama Victory? A McCain Victory?

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Industries, Presidential Election, Businesses, Barack Obama, John McCain, Business News

WASHINGTON — Battered by the financial meltdown, America's business community is anxiously calculating how Tuesday's presidential election will ...

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Fourteen Changes Barack Obama Could Make in His First 30 Days

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law Enforcement, Governance, Green Jobs, Financial Aid, Democracy, Policy, Barack Obama, Carbon Neutral, Stephen C. Rose, Businesses, White House, Federal Government, Presidential Records, Tax Filing, Huffington Post, No-Bid Contracts, Health Reform, Flexible Work Schedules, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

If he can infuse the huge federal engine with bite-sized, doable tasks that all link together somehow, he will be a mystery reformer -- a relatively low-key, undramatic force that renews and redirects an ineffective establishment.

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