Forbes • 24th March 2021

PRO Act And ABC Test: No One Knows What The Effects Will Be

According to many tax experts and management and employee side labor lawyers, no one knows what the PRO Act, with ABC independent contractor status test, ultimately will mean. Conflicts with other areas of law could turn into years of court cases to know.

Zenger News • 25th February 2021

Brands Walk A Marketing Tightrope Over Political Chasms

How do you win when marketing in the face of contentious political issues? It may not be possible.

Forbes • 9th January 2021

Democrats Win The Senate. What Should Businesses Expect?

With a thin majority in the House and Senate, Democrats can move Biden's agenda, but only so far and so fast.

Zenger News • 5th January 2021

‘Amen — and A-woman!’ Representative Opens Congress with Prayer Ending in Gender-Neutral Mashup

A House representative, offering an opening prayer for the new session of Congress, learned that language bending can cause mockery unending.

Forbes • 4th December 2020

Defense Department ‘5G Nationalization’ Charge Is Cover For A Wireless Industry War

There is a business and political fight over who will have access to bandwidth, currently owned by the Department of Defense, that is important to a 5G rollout.

Forbes • 27th October 2020

Trump Campaign Could Run Out Of Money Before Election Day

At the rate of fundraising and spending in September 2020, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will run out of money before Election Day. Joe Biden’s campaign, however, would have enough money to keep going for more than four years.

International Business Times • 21st October 2020

Politicians Often Play With Self-Dealing Decks, Ethics Optional

Studies, and history, show that politicians frequently made political decisions that, oddly enough, directly benefit them.

Forbes • 6th October 2020

Trump Guts Covid-19 Relief Talks As A Reelection Strategy

This headline sounds like classic clickbait, except it’s nothing more than a cold-blooded measure of what politics has become in this country. After coming down with Covid-19, getting whisked off for care that is unattainable by 99% of the population, being brought back to the White House where, visually weak and fighting for breath, he pulled the mask from his face to become a knowing disease vector among everyone living with and working for him, Donald Trump threw down an iron gauntlet before

Zenger News • 26th August 2020

Voting so Your 401(k) Grows? Don’t Check that Ballot Just Yet

The relationship between which U.S. political party is in power and the stock market is not what you might think.

DCReport.org • 15th May 2020

How Big Banks Have Undercut the Small-Business COVID-19 Loan Program

They turned the bailout plan into a brand-building marketing tool and threw money at their biggest corporate customers.

Business Insider • 24th April 2020

States are emptying their unemployment funds, and even the federal fund designed as a backstop is likely to run out of money

Many who have lost their jobs are relying on unemployment insurance to cover expenses. But states are struggling to keep up with demand.

Forbes • 14th April 2020

No, Mnuchin Didn’t Say People Could Live On $17 A Day. But What He Did Say Was Bad Enough

The federal rescue package is is designed for middle-income people, not low-income and poor citizens.

DCReport.org • 8th April 2020

The Fed Is Saving A Lot More Jobs Than We Are Losing

Why the pandemic and market crash mean everyone should think like a central banker.

Forbes • 28th March 2020

The Wealthy Learn What Low-Income People Already Knew

People who have always been comfortable are finding what life is like on the other side of the tracks.

Fortune • 24th February 2020

GOP fundraising mailings are deceptive, experts say

Did you get a mailing from what seemed to be the Census? It may have been a GOP fundraising effort.

NBC News • 5th July 2019

Trump isn't the first president to try to influence the Federal Reserve

Every president wants to influence the Fed, but Trump "just happens to be louder about it and says it while looking into the TV camera," one economist said.

Forbes • 16th March 2018

Liberals: Stop Saying That Trump Will Kill All Meals On Wheels

Worry that the Trump administration could eliminate Meals on Wheels was overblown and unrealistic.