Regulations on Gift Cards Make It Harder To Support Local Businesses in a COVID Crunch
Restaurants and shops are already suffering enough.
Small Business
Here's Why Rep. Justin Amash Opposes the CARES Act
The libertarian-leaning congressman says the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses discriminates against those that most need it.
Tennessee Will Allow 'Vast Majority' of Businesses To Reopen on May 1
And Georgia will reopen select businesses beginning April 24.
Shake Shack Received a $10 Million Small Business Loan. They're Giving It Back.
The company says it will return the money after it was announced that the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of funding.
The Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses Will Run Out of Money Today
The $349 billion loan program is meant to help small companies hit hard by social distancing.
4 Reasons Small Businesses Are Struggling With the Paycheck Protection Program
Unclear terms, unrealistic loan forgiveness, a site unprepared for launch, and a bottomless demand for cash
'It's a Very Large Package': Coronavirus Stimulus Plan Now Costs More Than $1 Trillion
Lawmakers are still seeking a compromise.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Wants to Use Commercial Rent Control to Save Small Businesses
City reports and industry find taxes, regulation, and permitting delays are often a bigger drag on small businesses than rising rents.
San Francisco Ballot Measure Would Tax Empty Storefronts in Attempt to Boost Retail Sector
The initiative would leave untouched all the city regulations that've made it so hard to start a business in the first place.
Stossel: Government Bans Ambulance Competition
35 states have laws that let established businesses block new businesses. This hurts consumers.
The NYPD Bragged About a Big Pot Bust. Turns Out It Seized 106 Pounds of Legal Hemp.
Green Angel CBD had the proper documentation for their shipment, but that didn't stop the New York cops.
Small Taco Truck Company Bashed for Serving 'All Communities'—Including ICE Workers
The company was criticized for serving ICE employees, then criticized for apologizing.
Falafel Shop Wins Narrow Victory Over San Francisco's Bizarre, Broken Permitting Process
By one vote, the city's planning commission denied a business's request to stop a competing falafel shop from opening up down the block.
Small Businesses Benefit From Deregulation But Remain Stymied by Trump's Trade Policy
Dump intrusive trade policies to give a real boost to consumers and entrepreneurs.
Trade Wars Have No Winners
As the U.S.-China trade war escalates again, farmers and small businesses are getting hurt the most, but global manufacturing is taking a hit too.
Stossel: Lessons From Africa
Entrepreneur Magatte Wade explains how regulations are keeping Africa poor.
Don't Believe the Hype: Sales Tax Holidays Are Usually a Ripoff
A weekend where a few items are free of sales taxes is a poor substitute for permanent reforms.
Warren Has a Plan To Help the Entrepreneurs She Screwed Over With Dodd-Frank
Warren proposes giving grants to minority-owned small businesses, but regulations she supported reduced access to capital for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Trump's Immigration Plan Could Use Some Work
Still, it's better than the administration's previous proposals to cut legal immigration in half.
Defenders of Bans on Cashless Businesses Say They're Defending Choice. They're Not.
Prohibiting businesses from going cardless ignores the choices of consumers and businesses alike.
The Supreme Court's Online Sales Tax Ruling Is Already a Huge Headache for Small Businesses
An overlooked ruling could force small businesses to pay sales tax in dozens, even hundreds, of jurisdictions where they have no representation.
Lawmakers Across the Country Propose Outlawing Cashless Businesses
They say it discriminates against those without checking or savings accounts.
NYC Councilman Proposes Cash-Free Business Ban to Battle 'Insidious Racism'
Businesses owners, not politicians, should have the final say over how their customers pay.
South Carolina Island Seeks Chain Business Ban to Maintain 'Unique Character'
The ban may be well-intentioned, but it's misguided all the same.
Neighbors Call Police on 10-Year-Old Iowa Girl Selling Cookies on the Street
One neighbor said she was concerned about the extra traffic.
Oakland's Weed Equity Program Not Helping Intended Recipients
Cannabis equity programs are growing in popularity, but do they actually work?
How New York Strangled Its Mom-and-Pop Rental Car Companies
Why does an economy car rent for an astonishing $161 per day in Manhattan? Because onerous insurance laws cartelized the industry.
Philly Votes to Regulate Bulletproof Glass in Corner Stores
A ban could be in effect by 2021.
Cracking Down on Cashless Cafés is Crazy
Chicago considers banning businesses that won't accept cash payments.
'Blatantly Irrational' Ban on Selling Home-Baked Goods in Wisconsin Must Stop
Despite a May ruling declaring the ban unconstitutional, Wisconsin continued to target home bakers.
Stossel: Eye Test Innovators vs. Bottleneckers
John Stossel got an eyeglass prescription over the internet. "Bottleneckers" want that banned.
Innovation Drives the Small Manufacturing Boom—If It Can Survive Regulatory Meddling
Entrepreneurs' efforts are wildly creative-but so are government officials' destructive policies.
Stossel: Stop! You Need a License To Do that Job!
"Bottleneckers" use occupational licensing to screw competitors and innovation in the name of keeping us safe.
Florists Lose on Free Expression
You may see yourselves as artists, but the state of Washington does not see bouquets as a form of expression.
Public Toilets and Private Burdens
Demanding access to businesses' restrooms comes with costs.
10 Ridiculous Recent Food-Marketing Lawsuits
And why these class-action endeavors are on the rise. (Hint: it's not consumer protection.)
Small Businesses Win Some Regulatory Relief
A few of our more perceptive government officials seem to realize they've been choking off entrepreneurship.
Close Them Down!
Donald Trump's picks to head the Department of Labor and Small Business Administration may be good, but the bureaucracies shouldn't exist in the first place.
D.C. Gov Goes After a Piece of Pub-Crawl Profits
You have a permit for that pub crawl, drunk Santa?
Weak Enforcement Will Blunt the Impact of New York's $15 Minimum Wage
Luckily, the state is incapable of administering a potentially disastrous law.
Hillary's State Department Stopped Haiti From Increasing Its Minimum Wage to 61 Cents
Because it would have hurt an already anemic economy. Sound familiar?
Topless Dancing and Alcohol Sales May Meet Again in Chicago
"Put a G-string on" and let the topless, drunken good times roll suggest some on the Chicago City Council.
How the NSA Is Killing American Small Businesses
Government snooping and the cloud-based software industry
Zoning and Zen
How regulations and charges of "cultural appropriation" destroyed a widow's small business dream
Tonight on Shark Tank: Commandos Who Fight Wars With Flip Flops
Watch the Army Rangers who founded Combat Flip Flops speak with Reason TV. Then watch them pitch the sharks on ABC at 9 p.m.
