Ronald Reagan


Why Small Business Lost On The Tax Bill

By Tom Richman |  Oct 1, 1981

Looking back on the tax fight that occupied Congress and the Administration throughout the summer, lobbyists and even some legislators contend that small ...  Read story

Rx For '82: Action, Not Words

By Milton D. Stewart |  Jan 1, 1982

The responses to our first Small Business Outlook survey (see page 31) showed a lot less optimism than we'll need in the year ahead. That's why I made a ...  Read story

Is Ronald Reagan Bad For Small Business?

Feb 1, 1982

Ralph Nader believes that what's good for small business is good for the consumer, but that Ronald Reagan is good for neither. The Presidential Acco...  Read story

Protectionist Paranoia

By Michael Kinsley |  Feb 1, 1983

Reagan and the Democrats either don't understand free trade or have started believing their own pap.  Read story

Who Loves You More? A Debate Between Partisans

Jun 1, 1983

GOP: What's good for America is good for small business. Democrats: What's good for small business is good for America.  Read story

The Gender Gap Strut

By Leslie M. Schultz |  Sep 1, 1984

Like strutting peacocks, Democrats and Republicans have been displaying their interest in women's issues to attract votes. The most dramatic gesture was D...  Read story

The New Tax Law: A Checklist

By Lisa R. Sheeran |  Nov 1, 1984

A taxpayer, Ronald Reagan once said, is someone who works for the government -- but doesn't have to take a civil-service examination. Certified publ...  Read story

Blast-off For Industrial Policy

By Steve Coll |  Jul 1, 1985

PRESIDENT REAGAN IS FORCED INTO MAKING INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR COMPETING GROUPS OF SPACE ENTREPRENEURS.  Read story

Celebrate! Grieve! Sit And Bite Your Nails! A Guide To The Reagan Tax Program

By Donna Sammons Carpenter |  Sep 1, 1985

If there was ever a time to question the adage "Nothing is certain but death and taxes," now is the moment. While death still seems a good bet, no one is...  Read story

The Stakes In The '86 Elections

By JAY FINEGAN |  Nov 1, 1986

This month, all eyes are on the Senate, where a Democratic victory would put business interests on the defensive. Would this be the end of the Reagan revolut...  Read story

Beware The Trojan Horse

By JAY FINEGAN |  Dec 1, 1987

Inside those Japanese auto plants are the seeds of destruction for thousands of small U.S. companies  Read story

Horse? What Horse?

By Robert L. Stamp |  Mar 1, 1988

Your article was excellent, but you put too much blame on President Reagan. He has certainly contributed to the deficit problem with his aggressive positi...  Read story

Tracking Borrowing Costs

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1993

A new book traces the performance of more than 30 key money rates over the past decade.  Read story

What's In A Name?

By Tom Richman |  Oct 1, 1982

With the profusion of political lables, there is more need than ever for small business to create an identifiable image.  Read story

Reagan's Economic Legacy

By John Case |  Oct 1, 1988

The growing federal deficit has created apprehension even among Reagan supporters.  Read story

Branding Like Obama

By Alexandra Zendrian |  Mar 19, 2008

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Dollars And Cents About 10-5-3

Jun 1, 1981

President Reagan proposes to grant tax relief to businesses by simplifying and accelerating depreciation write-offs for business assets acquired or placed...  Read story

Horse? What Horse?

By John S. Gallant |  Mar 1, 1988

You succinctly illustrated a growing threat to American business and the U.S. economy. You also offered keen insights into the outdated beliefs that driv...  Read story

The Making Of The President 1988

By Joel Kotkin |  Nov 1, 1984

THERE IS A RISING GENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- IN BOTH PARTIES -- THAT IS LOOKING TO SHAPE A WHOLE NEW POLITICS OF GROWTH.  Read story

What's Going To Happen In '82?

Jan 1, 1982

INC. asked hundreds of business people what they think this year will be like.  Read story

In Our Time

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1999

A timeline listing some of the most significant events in business from 1979 to 1999.  Read story

The Equity Of Equity

By Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.) |  Jul 1, 1985

I very much enjoyed your thought-provoking story concerning the "passion for ownership." Ownership is such a crucial factor in the very fabric of American...  Read story

"overseas Customers Prefer Small Companies"

By Joan G. Ford |  Sep 1, 1981

Last year, Maureen Reagan and Sell Overseas America helped 740 companies stake out a share of the world marketplace.  Read story

Those Were The Days

Apr 1, 1984

Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f...  Read story

Fork It Over;

By Nell Margolis |  Mar 1, 1986

ELIMINATING THE BUDGET deficit by 1991 could be a taxing job. Despite President Reagan's opposition, lawmakers may have to push through new taxes to...  Read story

Date Set for Small Business Week Events

Mar 22, 2007

March 22, 2007 -- The Small Business Administration will mark Small Business Week, an annual celebration of the nation's top entrepreneur...  Read story

Small-time Justice

By Virginia Inman |  Oct 1, 1985

The mergers game has become the greatest show on Wall Street, with huge companies gobbling each other up woth nary a protest from the trustbusters in Wash...  Read story

Ronald Reagan Is Making At Least One Business Boom

By Susan E. Currier |  Jul 1, 1981

By nibbling on jelly beans in the Cabinet, the President turned Herman Rowland's little candy company into a supply-side superstar.  Read story

Almost a Tax Plan

By Robert E. Litan |  Jan 1, 2006

The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too.  Read story

Going For Broke

By Stanley A. Weiss |  Mar 1, 1983

American weapons, not Russian, will be the death of us yet, and part of the reason is the unblinking support of the business community  Read story

English As A Second Language

By Stephen D. Solomon |  Mar 1, 1986

Or, as President Reagan might say, throw the little ones back. "A violation of the four-ounce standard occurs if the average of the aggregate weight...  Read story

Fast-growth Candidate

By Steve Coll |  Aug 1, 1985

Other Presidential hopefuls have tried to sell themselves to the entrepreneur. Jack Kemp is the first to market entrepreneurship to the rest of the country.  Read story

Second Thoughts on Growth

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Mar 1, 1991

Analysis of a new generation of business owners, and growing a company in light of the last decade.  Read story

The Small Business Decade: A Look Back At Year Two

By Milton D. Stewart |  Dec 1, 1981

At the small business bottom line, where it matters most, 1981 has been a year of mixed results at best. Bankruptcies escalated and high interest rates c...  Read story

Reagan To Report On Small Business

Jan 1, 1982

For President Reagan, January is the month to report -- on the State of the Union, on the economy, and this year, for the first time, on small business an...  Read story

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By George Gendron |  Apr 1, 1986

* For every budget that goes awry due to poor execution, thousands more lead to sleepless nights and cashless days because they were formulated on flawed ...  Read story

Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Vat

By S. A. Rish |  Jun 1, 1986

My research indicates that the idea of an oil surcharge has been limited to imported oil only ("Taxes to Close Deficit Could Hurt Small Firms," Insider, M...  Read story

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1999

A look at the cultural, economic, and political climate during 1979, the year that Inc. was founded, and the entrepreneurs and trends that shaped business ov...  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without

By Ryan Underwood |  Jan 1, 2009

An (almost) infinite playlist  Read story

Election '84: Pursuing An Entrepreneurial Agenda

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1984

Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Don't smirk. The Trivial Pursuit phenomenon (see "Big Game," page 101) not withstanding, this must be...  Read story