December 6, 2011
Polls, like the Chamber's Small Business Outlook Survey, show small business owners see policy uncertainty as an obstacle to greater job creation and more economic growth.
: General Foundation
December 5, 2011
The Aspen Institute is known for asking what I like to call "killer questions." Since Aspen is in the business of ideas, they know that questions have a way of focusing the mind on what we know and don't know, spurring on that tumbling, teaming process of
December 2, 2011
NCF curates a weekly list of blog posts that touch on emerging issues affecting the American business community.
November 30, 2011
Ross DeVol, chief research officer at the Milken Institute, asked this question in
November 28, 2011
The Economist recently highlighted two gentlemen who are making a rather strange argument that they're titling the Race Against the Machine.
November 18, 2011
NCF curates a weekly list of blog posts that touch on emerging issues affecting the American business community.
November 17, 2011
Manufacturing has long been seen as the bedrock of economic growth in the United States. From the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the semiconductor plants of the Information Revolution, America has a proud history of making things. Yet anyone who has spent time in the Rust Belt has fe
November 17, 2011
American citizens love their soldiers, a phenomenon that sometimes mystifies people from other countries. Indeed, the level of admiration and support we have for our troops is unique to the United States.
November 16, 2011
For all the talk these days about how divided the nation is – from red state to blue, from GOP to Democrats, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party – maybe it’s worth taking a moment to find some areas of consensus. One such area has to do with cutting corporate tax rates. As it turns out, th
November 16, 2011
When an economy turns south policymakers spring into action. For example, they will target fiscal policy in the form of tax cuts or stimulus spending to boost demand. Or the Federal Reserve might loosen monetary policy in an effort to combat rising unemployment.