Mar

31

In Monday’s MicroEnterprise Journal

March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Next week’s issue of The MicroEnterprise Journal is likely to be one of the better ones.
In the national news, we’ve got ourselves a theme — something that doesn’t often happen but the way stories fell into the lap this week, it just worked out that way. More news on the ultimate fate of the SBA, […]

Mar

31

Happy Friday!

March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

It’s Friday and, for the first time so far this year here in the Catskills, it reached 70 degrees.
Needless to say, I haven’t gotten much work done today.
Meanwhile, just in case you’ve been wondering why consumer sentiment fell in February and microbusiness sentiment fell in March, evidently personal incomes are down (explaining the consumers) and […]

Mar

30

Assembly lines are so passe

March 30, 2006 | 3 Comments

How come there are so many people who appear to be terrified by the thought that the U.S. economy is moving away from manufacturing?
It’s as if they think that, just because we built our world dominance on building things, that means we can’t keep our world dominance unless we keep building things.
I can sort of […]

Mar

29

Senators request hearing on Internet sales tax bill

March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Update on that remote sales tax collection bill.
You remember, don’t you? That’s the effort by certain sets of folks in state and local government to require online retailers (and telephone retailers and mail order retailers) to collect sales taxes on all purchases, which has found champions in Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). […]

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