Vice News, which allows a self-identified attorney to post under the pseudonym “SovCit, Esquire,” offered no counterpoints in a Vice article bashing business: “America Is a Spiraling Corporate Contract Dystopia.” The article offers no critical analysis of how lawsuits can decimate a business, destroy a fragile startup or bankrupt a firm. While any good attorney […]
Papa John’s Pizza owner John Schnatter blamed the NFL national anthem controversy this week for a $70 million decline in sales during the last quarter, but the mainstream media was having none of it. Slate’s story, headlined, “Papa John’s Blames Falling Sales on NFL Players Kneeling During the National Anthem (Seriously),” conceded “there is a […]
From the Free Beacon: Business executives told lawmakers that government regulations are to blame for thousands of job losses and may threaten the existence of small businesses during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Ryan Murray, vice president of operations at Murray Energy Corporation, testified in the hearing that the Stream Protection Rule proposed […]
As Fox News reported: The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year says he has fallen on hard times. Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he’s been forced to rent out his […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department under Obama is going to cut down on a corporate tax loophole known as tax “inversion.” Reuters reported that the Treasury Department will try to prevent U.S. companies from avoiding paying U.S. corporate taxes by buying foreign companies and then declaring citizenship of that foreign companies’ home country. There […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Airways and American Airlines are in the stages of merging their airlines, but the European Union (EU) is objecting to some of the terms to their merger. Reuters reports that the merging airlines are offering an olive branch to blunt the effects of a European investigation. The EU is investigating the merger […]