Commentary Among the many grim memories from the depths of lockdowns were boarded up local shops and long lines outside the big-box stores like WalMart, Kroger, Whole Foods, and Home Depot. For very strange reasons, small business was universally declared to be nonessential whereas the big chains were deemed essential. This amounted to a massive…
How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel
May 30, 2023
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Plutocratic Socialism and the Corruption of Democracy
July 21, 2022
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This article is adapted from the book “Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class.” The American constitutional order assumes a populace of property owners, a middle class whose virtues provide the necessary ballast to support our republic. Our founders imagined strong communities, strong families, and independent citizens capable…
Half of Australia’s Big Businesses Failing to Pay Small Suppliers on Time
July 21, 2022
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Around half of Australia’s big businesses are failing to pay small business suppliers on time, according to the country’s small business and family enterprise ombudsman. According to the Payment Times Reporting Regulator, over half the country’s businesses with an annual turnover of over $100 million (US$70 million) managed to meet payment deadlines to 80 percent…
House GOP Trust-busting Bill Is an Economic Disaster
Commentary With President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda in ruins, Democrats want to blame Big Business for the mayhem of high inflation and a collapsing stock market. The White House has pointed its finger at every industry, from Big Tech to meat producers, oil and gas producers, the poultry industry and pharmaceutical companies. Apparently,…
The Covenant Between the Main Street Consumer and Big Corporations Is Collapsing
Commentary PITTSBURGH—Word travels fast in places like this city’s iconic small-business district filled with third- and fourth-generation family-owned businesses, the majority of which are centered on two things: relationships and food. Relationships and food, but not politics. At least not usually, thank goodness. The relationships come not just from the generational loyalty of people repeating…
Cybersecurity Is No Longer an Option; Your Money Is in Immediate Danger
By Dr. Steven Ghim On any given news day, you can find a headline detailing the latest cybersecurity attack on a big business. But should mom-and-pop shops take this threat as seriously as Wall Street bigwigs? The answer is an inarguable “yes.” Hackers aren’t just focusing on major corporations anymore. If your personal email has ever been compromised, you’ve…
GOP Trustbusters Are Embracing Progressives’ Agenda
April 21, 2021
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Commentary It’s not too often that Republicans embrace the agenda of leftist Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But it’s happening. Sen. Josh Hawley, the young Republican senator from Missouri, has introduced a bill in Congress entitled: “Trustbusting for the Twenty-First Century Act.” It may be the most dangerous bill to our economy from a…
Republican Insiders Say Corporate ‘Woke-ism’ Threatens Pact Between GOP and Big Business
A lobbying and communications outfit with deep ties to GOP leadership argued in a recent memo that the rise of “woke CEOs embracing avant-garde social agendas” is fueling a populist surge in the Republican Party that threatens to upend its longstanding pact with big business. There’s “trouble ahead for the tried-and-true coalition of Republicans and…
Political Correctness Has Captured Big Business: ‘The Dictatorship of Woke Capital’ Author
March 12, 2021
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Author Stephen Soukup told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” that American big business had traditionally served as a free market-loving shield against the long, leftist march for control of the institutions of Western civilization, but that is now changing as businesses are on track to becoming an economically more powerful version of the “woke” college campus….
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