Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Foreign-Born CEOs
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Russian immigrant Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google: From a recent Forbes article: According to the National Venture Capital Association, immigrants make up only 11.7% of the U.S. population, but have started one in four of all U.S. public companies that have been ...
Trade Isn’t A Threat, It’s Why We Are Prosperous
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Democratic candidates for national office will: 1) make negative comments about free-trade deals while campaigning in a state where hundreds of thousands of blue-collar manufacturing jobs have been lost and yet 2) be committed to free trade should they ...
The Ethanol Bubble: Is It Starting to Burst?
Friday, May 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Judging by recent financial results, the big villains in the ethanol story—the American companies that are responding to government mandates by buying about 20% of the U.S. corn harvest and processing it into fuel—aren't exactly thriving. In fact, their bottom ...
Wal-Mart Puzzle: Why Is It Thriving?
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »According to Daniel Gross at Slate.com, Wal-Mart's stock is at a 2-year high (see chart above) because:1. Wal-Mart sells necessities, not discretionary items. The overwhelming majority of its sales are not impulse buys. Even in a recession, most people don't ...
