By Blake Neff Published: December 10, 2014 An associate professor at Harvard Business School is on the warpath against a Boston-area Chinese restaurant over a misleading online menu that he claims led to him being improperly charged $4 extra. Ben Edelman, who teaches in the school’s Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit, is also a national expert…
By Peter Fricke Free-market advocates say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wants to treat the symptoms rather than the cause of U.S. businesses seeking lower taxes overseas. Lew is the latest Obama official to make the case for restricting the ability of U.S. companies to merge with foreign companies in order to relocate to lower-tax countries….
Operation Choke Point Hearing Reveals DOJ Threats And Strong-Arming By Jonah Bennett A Justice Department fraud prevention program came under fire Thursday for allegedly morphing into actively pressuring banks to deny financial services to businesses for political reasons. Operation Choke Point functions as a partnership between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and various other federal agencies…
A parking business in Seattle, Washington is responding to the new forced hike in minimum wage to $15 an hour by implementing a “living wage surchage” to its customers’ bills. The MasterPark at Sea-Tac International Airport instituted the additional 99-cents-per day fee as a way to show the public the effects of voting a higher…
The Independents show on Fox Business hosted former Senator Rick Santorum to discuss his new book “Blue Collar Conservatives.” But what was supposed to be a book promotional segment seemed more likely to be a thinly veiled opportunity for the libertarian hosts to skewer Santorum over his opposition to libertarianism. Hostess with the Mostess Kennedy made…
By Breanna Deutsch For the tenth year in a row, Texas has taken home the blue ribbon for being the best state in the country for business. “Texas is the best state for business and I don’t see anything slow it down,” one CEO who wasquestioned for Chief Executive Magazine’s annual survey wrote. ”The education and quality…
By Breanna Deutsch Business groups are continuing their fight against minimum wage increases even as some Republicans are starting to stray. On Monday, former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd” that the mainstream Republican stance on the minimum wage ‘makes no sense,” referring to the GOP’s disapproval of legislation…
By Breanna Deutsch A coalition of minority business owners is warning Seattle residents that if the city dramatically hikes the minimum wage, immigrants will be the first to lose jobs. Follow TLR on Google+ In a letter directed to Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, the group of multicultural small business owners explained that the proposed $15 minimum wage…
By Julia Morriss Advertising is essential to business success. Signs signal new products and attract new customers. They are staples of most store fronts. But Williams, AZ is trying to prevent businesses from effectively advertising their products by limiting sign space. The city’s sign code previously allowed signs to take up as much as 50%…
Despite all the stories about courts failing to properly restrain government, occasionally a judge comes along who demonstrates proper judicial authority and sets a great example for how to put the brakes on government overreach. Missoula County in Montana is responsible for regulating and licensing hotels and similar services. Logically, as not all businesses are…