…government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner. GE 2008…

…if labour were scarce, fewer enterprises would be undertaken.” Marshall’s “national dividend” was an updated and sanitized label for what a decade earlier in The Economics of Industry, he still…

…from Midwest nice to hostile. Not long ago, this setting was friendly terrain for Meijer. For decades, voters here rewarded sensible, pro-business, avowedly conservative politicians. Meijer fit the archetype of…

…federal spending were worthless, appointed a commission led by a wealthy businessman to bring a business sensibility to the budget, going through it line by line to identify inefficiency and…

…directors clearly have no clue how to run a mortgage-related business. (Exception noted: reverse mortgages are philosophically reasonable, though I personally don’t believe they are either reasonable or valuable as…

…states, vaunted the benefits of doing business with “OPM.” “It’s called OPM. I do it all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money,” Trump said. “There’s nothing like…

…Self-serve will occur after normal business hours. It is a bold step for a country which is somewhat conservative in its business practices. All items will be paid by credit…

…are the risks of it unraveling into a recession? Powell’s label of “curious” got me thinking about the other “curiosities” of the labor market during this cycle. The pandemic recession…

…of subsidies represented by the “active business exception” that allows tax free reorganizations to move business assets and jobs out of the country without any tax “toll” on the departure….

…smaller pieces. Our short, 49-year sample quickly rears its head. Smaller, shorter slices, for instance, might only reflect where they happen to land in the business cycle. And slices concentrated…