Ronald Reagan

Mourning in America: Father of the Era of Inc.

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Tracking Borrowing Costs

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

Horse? What Horse?

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 more

Beware The Trojan Horse

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

The Stakes In The '86 Elections

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 more

Blast-off For Industrial Policy

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

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

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 more

The Gender Gap Strut

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 more

The New Tax Law: A Checklist

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 more

Protectionist Paranoia

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

Who Loves You More? A Debate Between Partisans

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

Rx For '82: Action, Not Words

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 more

Is Ronald Reagan Bad For Small Business?

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 more

Why Small Business Lost On The Tax Bill

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

What's In A Name?

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

Branding Like Obama

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

Reagan's Economic Legacy

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

What You Can Learn from Barack, Hillary, and McCain

Whether or not you consider yourself to be politically inclined, a smart business leader can learn a lot from the campaign rhetoric being tossed around du...  Read more

Dollars And Cents About 10-5-3

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

Horse? What Horse?

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 more

The Making Of The President 1988

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

In Our Time

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

What's Going To Happen In '82?

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

The Equity Of Equity

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 more

"overseas Customers Prefer Small Companies"

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

Date Set for Small Business Week Events

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

Fork It Over;

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 more

Those Were The Days

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 more

Almost a Tax Plan

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

Small-time Justice

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 more

Ronald Reagan Is Making At Least One Business Boom

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

Going For Broke

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 more

English As A Second Language

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 more

Second Thoughts on Growth

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

Fast-growth Candidate

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 more

Reagan To Report On Small Business

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 more

The Small Business Decade: A Look Back At Year Two

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 more

Things I Can't Live Without

An (almost) infinite playlist  Read more

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

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 more

* 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 more