President Obama’s getting his insourcing groove on

President Obama hosted a forum on “Insourcing American Jobs” at the White House yesterday. According to the press release circulated, “The forum will focus on the increasing trend of insourcing – where companies are bringing jobs back to the United States and making additional investments here in America.”
Ain’t that swell?
The point of this exercise isn’t [...]

The U.S. Senate ties up loose ends

One of the things I couldn’t tell you about when it happened has to do with my friend, Dr. Winslow Sargeant (who is not Kellen Winslow and has never played for the San Diego Chargers), Chief Counsel of the SBA Office of Advocacy.
The sad saga of Dr. Sargeant’s nomination to the Chief Counsel spot and [...]

End subsidies, save small farmers?

(Photo by Daniel Leininger, via Flickr.)
It looks like the impossible has happened.
Budget negotiators in Washington are actually getting serious about cutting farm subsidies.
The lawmakers from the big farm states that get back so much more in farm subsidies from the federal kitty than they put into the federal kitty in taxes seem pretty much resigned [...]

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