As this is the week of predictions, I have a prediction of my own.
After nearly four years of crushed optimism, I predict that in 2012, America will get back on its feet by getting back to its roots.
As a nation, we will rediscover our exceptionalism and stop making excuses for it, or worse, being ashamed by it.
We have temporarily lost our way.
We have turned our focus away from the heritage of our Democracy; a symbol of strength and fairness once ...
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The Commerce Department recently released figures that from the start of the 2000s, U.S. multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and another 477,500 workers in Latin America (not including Mexico).
At the same time, some 864,000 U.S. jobs were cut.
From 2000 to 2009, U.S. corporations increased employment in Canada by 1.0 million (up 6 percent); in the U.K. by 1.1 million (up 8 percent); in India by 453,000 (up 642 percent); in Brazil by 505,300 (up ...
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The Wall Street Journal recently convened its annual CEO Council.
This year, some 100 CEOs gathered and concluded that the nation’s top five priorities are:
• create a globally competitive tax system;
• immigration policies should support innovation;
• improve human capital;
• upgrade our energy infrastructure;
• invest in R&D.
The question that must be asked is: Why doesn’t President Barack Obama and members of Congress come to these same conclusions? The answer is that the country needs to be run by people who understand business.
This ...
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As I watch the general malaise gripping Washington, I find myself thinking about the lyrics of Tom Petty’s hit song: “The waiting is the hardest part.”
I know I am not the only one waiting for something to happen to get this nation back on track.
Our small businesses, entrepreneurs and 14 million unemployed feel an endless gnawing, the grinding of gears, as America performs like a broken clock.
Time stands still. It has become all about the waiting.
• The waiting for the ...
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As the so-called Super Committee failed to reach agreement on $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, our politicians and their designated flame-throwers frothed in their “I told you so” antics, heaping blame on everyone besides themselves.
The real failure, of course, was to demonstrate to the American people that Congress simply cannot work together and this country is totally devoid of leadership.
In particular, it continues to reinforce the feeling of uncertainty and hopelessness among small-business owners that deficit spending will not be ...
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