The loss of local businesses will likely have a greater long term effect on your community and country past losing your favourite pub or preferred place to eat. Besides making communities interesting, innovative and increasingly energetic, smaller and medium sized companies are a significant contributor to a healthy democracy. While the Corporatist model of policy […]
The Los Angeles Times captures some of the excitement around the stimulus package and the opportunity for it to create jobs. In the bleak economy, such enthusiasm (in addition to federal funding) can help create opportunities. But the sustainability of the of the government largess is questionable unless it can create a market through incentives […]
Over the next year, the Obama Administration and Congress will debate how to address a wide variety of energy tax and fee issues. This comes on the heels of last year’s high oil and gas prices and record profits for companies in the industry which had Congress deliberating windfall taxes and more drastic action. Now […]