Monthly Archives: April 2010
While You Were Working – April 29, 2010
At HTA, we know that running a small business is time consuming, and you can’t always stop to check the news. We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you may have missed today: Washington Post: Jobless Claims Underscore Fragile Labor Market The Hill: Labor Likes Prospect of New Jobs from Nuclear Wall Street Journal: How to [...]
The Party of Big Business
Ever since FDR was elected president in 1932, the Republican Party has been vilified by liberals and the news media as the party of large corporations and the defender of greedy capitalists. That claim is not supported by the facts. In the past decade, large corporations in many industries have contributed far more money to [...]
Posted in The Economy 1 Comment
Getting Some Perspective
Michael Ramirez from Investors Business Daily offers some context:
While You Were Working – April 28, 2010
At HTA, we know that running a small business is time consuming, and you can’t always stop to check the news. We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you may have missed today: Washington Post: Poll Finds Americans in an Anti-incumbent Mood as Midterm Elections Near Fox News: Debt Commission Co-chairs: Obama Health Care Law “On [...]
One Union’s Victory In Un-Union Strategy
Prolific writer Steve Malanga has a must-read story in today’s Wall Street Journal examining the success (if that’s the term) of retiring SEIU union president Andy Stern. As Malanga argues, Stern’s victories did not come as a result of being a fantastic union leader, they came from being a political power player: But it’s important [...]
While You Were Working – April 27, 2010
At HTA, we know that running a small business is time consuming, and you can’t always stop to check the news. We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you may have missed today: The Hill (Blog): Second Cloture Vote Fails on Financial Regulatory Reform Washington Post: Presidential Commission to Address Rising Debt New York Times: Off [...]
Jobs: They Come From The Private Sector
Investors Business Daily has a timely reminder that jobs don’t grow on trees, and certainly not from orchards tended by the government: Jobs, the real jobs that will move us ahead, are generated through economy-fueling private investment. Those investment dollars cannot be loosed if the government is taking them out of the capital markets through [...]
Posted in Jobs in America 1 Comment
While You Were Working – April 26, 2010
At HTA, we know that running a small business is time consuming, and you can’t always stop to check the news. We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you may have missed today: The Hill: Senate Republicans May Offer Their Own Measure to Overhaul Wall Street New York Times: Troubled Senate Climate Bill to Undergo EPA [...]
While You Were Working – April 30, 2010