[Poll] How is the new year/decade looking for you?
I was talking about that surge of optimism that comes from a sense of clean slate-ity at the beginning of a new year in my Policy Matters column this week.
The effect is multiplied at the beginning of a new decade (although, technically, the new decade doesn’t start until next year).
We’re all convinced that greatness [...]
[Guest Post] Unusual degrees for small business success
(Photo by gadgetdude, via Flickr)
Have you ever wondered if you’d be better off going back to college to study “business,” only to be stopped in confusion by one of those online discussions about the uselessness of formal business education? Well, here is guest author Vincent Kovar to clear up the confusion for you.
Kovar is a [...]
Know where you’re going so you can get yourself there
There are any number of places I could have gone to find my last post of 2009 but I decided to go with the obvious.
The big politics and policy story of 2009 (if you want to by-pass Inauguration Day) was undoubtedly health care reform. I’m not going to write about it; I found it tedious [...]



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