Review: The Women Entrepreneurs of Impoverished Countries
She Rises Up manages to be inspirational without being sappy, like so many documentaries are.
She Rises Up manages to be inspirational without being sappy, like so many documentaries are.
Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
Price controls lead to the misallocation of resources, shortages, diminished product quality, and black markets.
Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
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These handouts will flow to businesses—often big and rich—for projects they would likely have taken on anyway.
"We are poor because we don't let our entrepreneurs work," says the director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas Network.
I shouldn't have to spend so much money on an accountant every year. But I don't really have a choice.
The policy is a true budget buster and is ineffective in the long term.
His speech in Davos challenged the growing worldwide trend of increased government involvement in economic affairs.
A new bill would impose a $20,000 annual sales cap, which would make the state’s cottage food regime one of the most restrictive in the nation.
A veto from Gov. Katie Hobbs killed a bill that would’ve brought the trade above ground. Now lawmakers have launched a new legalization effort.
The plan will help provide “university-sponsored visas that allow them to continue performing and commercializing research without leaving the state.”
When regulators block entrepreneurs, they take away a golden ticket.
X-Dumpsters owner Steven Hedrick rents roll-away dumpsters to people, but now his city forces residents to contract with the county.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
Arizona was set to legalize the sale of "potentially hazardous" homemade foods—but then Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed the bill.
Why the businessman launched a long shot campaign for the presidency.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
The higher taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs could slow growth. Less opportunity means more tribalism and division.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
But partisans are having the wrong debate.
Compliance could prove impossibly expensive for independent food sellers.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
The free market allows people to cooperate, fix errors, and adapt to changing circumstances.
Wherever markets are free, new wealth gets created. Then almost everyone wins.
Without a tenable visa pathway, immigrant entrepreneurs will look to greener pastures—and the American economy will be worse for it.
It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.
Comparing Elon Musk and Barack Obama underscores why entrepreneurs, not politicians, are the more effective agents of social change.
Limited resources create enormous vulnerability.
Though the American economy still looks bleak, there are silver linings.
Necessity became opportunity for many who started businesses.
Detroit leaders throw around words like "fairness" and "equity" while shielding big restaurants from smaller competition.
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
A bill signed into law this month in Illinois and one awaiting governor approval in New Hampshire would let kids sell non-alcoholic beverages outside their homes.
From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.
Even a critic who doesn’t love singing or dancing succumbed to its charms.
Regulators haven't kept up with the times when it comes to the changing nature of ventures into space.
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There's a silver lining to partisan demagogues taking up peaceful entrepreneurship.
Alex Winter's new film celebrates the Rock Hall of Famer's individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here's one silver lining.
A government survey finds that prepping for hard times can have wide benefits.