Politics


How Taxes Should Be Cut

If the President and Congress really want to stimulate the economy, they will help small business.  Read story

The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?

President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage.  Read story

Arizona Lawmakers Curb Nonprofit Competition

In a precedent-setting more this May, Arizona lawmakers slapped controls on state agencies and state-supported institutions to prevent them from offering ...  Read story

Success Finds Its Way South of the Border

What lurks beyond Rio Grande A leading expert on the opportunities and risks for U.S. companies in Mexico is Stephen Blank, a profes...  Read story

Hanging Tough With Reagan On Taxes

Small business deal makers had to choose between political loyalty to the Administration and attractive offers from Democrats. They made a split decision.  Read story

Entrepreneurial Gold Rush In Low-power Tv

The Federal Communications Commission's recent proposal to permit low-power television stations to originate programs has prompted a rush of applications ...  Read story

How To Save A Few Billion Dollars

Defense bureaucrats could save that much by contracting with smaller companies.  Read story

Pacs Pack Congress With Business Backers

Those interested in seeing small business supporters elected to Congress have two national avenues to channel their political contributions -- the Nationa...  Read story

Save Money on Energy Costs

The deregulation of the energy industry is a hot new market for some start-ups, as Emily Barker reveals in the Read story

A Garbage Hauler Against The Pentagon

For six years, Turco Disposal Inc. of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., collected the garbage at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake Calif. But last year, the D...  Read story

Pick A Pack Of Pols

The article "Picking a PAC" by Tom Richman (August) heralds the ultimate erosion of our democratic system and underscores the contempt that business exhib...  Read story

UNTITLED

While global risk has become a focal point for investors, corporate malfeasance is still a hairy elephant. But if the recommendations made Thursday by the...  Read story

Protectionist Paranoia

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

China Bound

To help you do business in China, Inc.com has created a master list of online resources to help you tackle the thorniest of global business issues.  Read story

Help Soldiers Get Back to Work

Federal law guarantees reemployment for those serving in the Reserves and National Guard, but the transition from battlefield to workplace can be fraught wit...  Read story

When Politics and Trade Collide

Free trade, and the impact it has on U.S. workers, has become a hot-button issue on the presidential campaign trail. Neal Asbury, the Small Business Administ...  Read story

The Big Stimulus: What's in it for Small Business?

What the $819 billion dollar plan could do for your business.  Read story

Three Small Business Owners Who Love Obama's Stimulus

Some Inc. 500|5000 CEOs are in the right industries to benefit from the President's emergency funds.  Read story

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

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

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 Debate over Workers' Rights

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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

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

Do Entrepreneurs Need Protection or Free Trade?

THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL In speeches, Obama Read story

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Clean Air Act

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Clean Water Act

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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European Union (EU)

The European Union (EU), formerly known as the European Community (EC), was formed in the 1950s to encourage and oversee political and economic cooperatio...  Read story

Global Business

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Globalization

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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Related Terms: Globalization The North American Fr...  Read story

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry coding system designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and presentation o...  Read story

Tariffs

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U.S. Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce, which was established in 1903, is one of the main government agencies intended to assist businesses—large and small—and re...  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

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 story

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 story