The Entrepreneurial Agenda

The Entrepreneurial Agenda

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Veteran reporter Robb Mandelbaum writes about the big issues that affect entrepreneurs, especially as they relate to the 2008 presidential campaign. Read full bio
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Obama Compromises On Taxes -- With Himself

August 25, 2008 - 5:54pm
A couple weeks ago, when Barack Obama filled in some of the details of his economic plan -- specifically his tax plan -- conservatives were pleased. The presumptive Democratic nominee made it official and put it in writing: he would...
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McCain's Coal Contradiction -- In The Bush Tradition

August 8, 2008 - 7:03pm
If John McCain's double standard on clean fuel -- opposing government support that "picks winners" among to renewable fuels, but favoring aid for clean coal -- seems familiar, that may be because it's been embraced by the current occupant of...
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McCain, Fair-Weather Free Marketeer: Courting Coal

August 7, 2008 - 5:08pm
We've discussed in this space Senator John McCain's occasional backsliding from the free market orthodoxy. He opposes government intervention in the markets, except when he favors it -- when, say, CEO's make too much money, "speculators" drive up oil prices,...
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Obama's Plan: Economic Lifeline Or Political Weapon?

August 1, 2008 - 7:54pm
Barack Obama's emergency back-up stimulator, announced today, is a deft political document. For one thing, the timing is impeccable: it was ostensibly a reaction to this morning's dismaying unemployment report, which showed that the nation lost 51,000 jobs in July,...
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McCain's Nadir -- We Hope -- Of Negativity

July 31, 2008 - 10:54am
Wow. Isn't it awfully early in the general election for such a double-barreled assault of unpleasantness? After all, brazenly negative campaigning so often reeks of last-act desperation, of slipping further and further behind. Most national polls, though, show John McCain...
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Deficit Soars; Candidates Fiddle

July 28, 2008 - 6:16pm
The White House announced today that -- whoops! -- its economic brain trust had misunderestimated the federal deficit. In 2009, it's likely to soar, or skyrocket, or spiral -- pick your cliché here -- to $482 billion. That's a record,...
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