Obama on the Economy
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z... Read story
Robb Mandelbaum
Obama's Health Plan: Coverage, but at What Price?
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE OBAMA PLAN: While the Tax Policy Center calls the President-elect's plans for insurance reform "highly progressiv... Read story
A Tech Savvy President-Elect
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Trolling the Internet, it seems that a preponderance of thoughtful spokespeople for the tech revolution support Obama. That... Read story
Will Obama Give Entrepreneurs Protection or Free Trade?
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Most experts believe that on balance trade has delivered much more good than harm to the U.S. Still, some question the free... Read story
SBA Lending In Freefall
Small Business Administration guaranteed lending appears to be collapsing, and the agency is loosening the rules on the interest rates banks can charge in... Read story
Did The NFIB's Campaign Gamble Pay Off?
This year, the National Federation of Independent Business put up $1.6 million to support a handful of Republican running for re-election or election to C... Read story
The Vote In Iowa
A year ago, the Entrepreneurial Agenda took its campaign coverage to Iowa. In a conference room at the Des Moines Partnership, a handful of entrepreneurs ... Read story
If You Do Nothing Else Today...
...don't forget to vote. Read story
Fair-Weather Free Marketeer Returns: McCain To Bail Out Detroit
He's baaack! Today, appearing on Good Morning America , John McCain showed us his socialist side. "I would... Read story
McCain Camp On Health: Talking Straight Or Taken Out Of Context?
Did McCain's senior economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin really admit yesterday that his boss' health care plan won't really work? Many people se... Read story
The Candidates & The Issues -- Any Questions?
Really -- we're not being rhetorical here. This election season, Inc.com has worked mightily to make sure entrepreneurs and small business owners know whe... Read story
Election Spending: The Chamber Brings The Big Guns
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is apparently not satisfied with the Republican Party's electoral efforts. Per the Read story
In This Election, NFIB Aims Its Fire Like A Sniper
You may be wondering where the National Federation of Independent Business has been hiding this election cycle. Normally... Read story
How Much Will You Pay?
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE OBAMA PLAN: For Individuals: According to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan center-left organi... Read story
Who's Offering the Bigger Cut?
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE McCAIN AND OBAMA PLANS: For Individuals: According to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan cente... Read story
McCain's Small Business Tax Dodge
John McCain has to choose his words carefully when he attacks Barack Obama on taxes. This is what he said in the Read story
More Tax Cuts! More Spending! More Four-Point Plans!
The economic plans are coming fast and furious. Whoa --there goes another one! Here's a rundown of what McCain and Obama have put on the table in the last... Read story
Obama Unveils Small Business Rescue -- And Boosts SBA
Saying that "now is not the time for panic," Barack Obama took to the stage in Chillicothe, Ohio, today to announce what he described as a "Small Business... Read story
Has The NFIB Turned Against McCain's Health Insurance Reform?
That's what the New York Times suggests , anyway. According to a report ... Read story
Will the Bailout Help You?
It's the $700 billion question on everyone's mind -- and nobody has a real answer. To understand whether the money will start flowing again, it's important t... Read story
How McCain Funds Health Reform: By Cutting Medicare
One lingering question surrounding John McCain's health care proposals had been how he would pay for his ambitious reform. Well now the campaign has answe... Read story
Tax This; Tax That
When it comes to taxes, John McCain and Barack Obama both want to ease the burden and spark the economy. The difference is in how they would go about doing i... Read story
The Bailout Blues
If Wall Street is to be believed, we are so screwed. The House nixed the bailout bill -- and notwithstanding MarketWatch economist Irwin ... Read story
Who's The Leader?
So what kind of leadership has John McCain offered the nation during his campaign's "suspension"? Well, we know that he sat in on a meeting at the White H... Read story
The Bailout: A Modest Proposal
I, for one, am glad that the $700 billion bailout is stalled for the moment, though not for the reasons over which the balkers are balking. Republicans ca... Read story
From McCain, Some Love For the SBA (From Schramm, None)
Last Friday, at the Inc. 500 conference, Carl Schramm took a gratuitous but useful swipe at the Small Business Administration... Read story
Obama Blows Off Small Business -- Again
Douglas Holtz-Eakin found himself in something of an awkward position last Friday afternoon, as he sat before an audience of some of the nations most succ... Read story
TBTF?
Is anyone else sick of hearing government officials plaintively utter the expression "too big to fail," particularly while metaphorically writing a very l... Read story
Is Aggressive Intervention Required?
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z... Read story
Drilling Down to the Details
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Drilling offshore and a summer gas tax holiday aren't likely to lower gas prices, especially not in the near-term. Accordin... Read story
McCain Reverses Himself On The Economy -- Again
What is a free marketeer to do when the economy is in crisis? This past winter, John McCain's instinct was to do nothing, save letting the chips fall wher... Read story
A Conservative Lambastes The Republican Economic Boondoggle
Last Sunday, for the second time in three weeks, the New York Times presented an economy's-eye view of the election, this time from Read story
Do Entrepreneurs Need Protection or Free Trade?
THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL In speeches, Obama Read story
Coming Soon To A Campaign Ad Near You?
Palin: For the br... Read story
The Future of Workers' Rights
OBAMA'S VIEWS AT A GLANCE There are few surprises here. Barack Obama broadly supports expanding labor's right to organize, including the Employe... Read story
A Debate over Workers' Rights
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Coverage, but at What Price?
THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL Democrat Barack Obama's proposal is as at least as sweep... Read story
Does It Matter That One Candidate is Comfortable Using Technology and One Isn’t?
JOHN MCCAIN'S AGENDA, IN DETAIL Though McCain supports many of the same goals as Obama, his Read story
Obama Compromises On Taxes -- With Himself
A couple weeks ago, when Barack Obama filled in some of the details of his economic plan -- specifically his tax plan -- conservatives were pleased. The p... Read story
How Much of a Burden Must Employers Bear?
OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION PLAN AT A GLANCE Barack Obama proposes simultaneously tightening security on the Mexican border while encouraging undocument... Read story
