The Freestyle Entrepreneur

It’s happening right now.  As the towering super wave approaches, all we hear at first is the innocent sound of envelopes being opened … followed by such sounds as “You’ve got to be kidding!” (and that’s the most polite response).  Millions of individuals and businesses are receiving notice of significant health care premium notices right [...]

I am no economist; just a guy knee-deep in the grit, grime and glory of small business.  And when I say the last year or so has been a bear, I suspect I am preaching to the choir.  I discovered that, yes, there is money out there, but no one is giving it away without [...]

  This is part rant, part rave!  I’ve had it and am fed up about the ignorant, anti-capitalism noise coming from the President of the United States and those around him.  I expect this kind of idiocy from euro-trash, people who see the government as a huge tit from which all their needs flow.  But from our [...]

By John A. Mangin, Jr. As a nation, we face immediate challenges, both of which threaten to destroy our capitalistic system if we let them: Cap-and-Trade, that rip-off by a government bent on rewarding its political favorites by creating a scarce new commodity, “carbon credits,” making businesses buy it, but forcing the poor pay to [...]