Category: News and Politics
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Crowdfunding article bibliography
Are you a small business owner thinking about crowdfunding? Crowdfunding issues have become an increasingly frequent part of my day-to-day discussions with small businesses – both for profit and nonprofit – and the investors who finance them. Many of my recent blog posts reflect this trend. Most of these blog posts focus on very basic concepts of…
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Leadership involves politics: politics involves dealing with diversity
reposted from my editorial on BaySave’s blog: In the past few weeks many of our nation’s business leaders and scientific groups have come together to issue boldly worded political statements. On June 28 most of the world’s leading scientific groups issued a joint letter to Congress. This week 146 silicon valley business executives issued a joint…
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Top 10 things for a Philly native to do during the DNC
Top 10 things for a Philly native to do during the DNC: Be really careful about timing travel through the city. Use a traffic-enabled GPS before even getting into the car. Buy a drink at 3:30AM just because you can. Watch out for those wide Humvees with roof-mounted machine guns on the Schuylkill expressway. Listen for…
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Forecasting the presidential election
Accurate forecasting of the outcome of the upcoming presidential election is important for a number of business reasons. Forecasting is an important part of financial planning and tax planning, for example. Forecasting the outcome of the presidential race does not seem to be a difficult task at this point: “Most nonpartisan political analysts currently see the…
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Trump is absolutely right about banking regulation
When Bernie Sanders made big bank regulation the focus of his campaign platform, this point became the sharpest distinction between him and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Clinton has a long history of big bank support despite the strong evidence that these powerful special interests are hurting innovation, job growth and small businesses across America, We…
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New study give insights to ‘Upper Middle Class’
A new study released last month by Urban Institute titled “The Growing Size and Incomes of the Upper Middle Class” by Stephen J. Rose investigates shifts in household income in the United States. The most obvious conclusion is that the portion of Rich and Middle Upper class households have grown sharply over the past 25 years while…
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Merck lays off peers in Montco
One of the most respected employers in my community announced that it is closing its research facility and laying off 360 workers. Merck was a highly favorite employer among my Delaware Valley University undergraduate classmates and Temple University grad school peers. At one time I knew many who worked at Merck’s North Wales plant.…
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Low interest rate news boosts stock prices
Seldom has the stock market been so easy to predict. But it will become fully valued and performance will change quickly, as it always does.
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Delaware passes crowdfunding law
Delaware is the state of organization of many small business organizations including most of my clients. Yesterday Delaware joined 34 other states in passage of legislation that makes use of more liberal federal crowdfunding rules for small business equity financing. The new state law recognizes the provisions of federal law under the JOBS act. I’ve…