This has been making the rounds of the internet, and while it's apocryphal, I actually know several business owners who have done just as this letter says. To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your j...

Last week, the President announced that executive pay would be capped at $500,000 for banks that took TARP money. The argument was that federal taxpayers shouldn't be paying ridiculous money for failing institutions. Recruiters roundly condemned the idea, and pointed out that failing institutions we...

I'm not sure when it happened, but I think that I've slipped into a Charles Dickens novel. I got my first clue that something was up back in September, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Amid scandals over bailouts and backroom deals, congressional testimony and AIG retreats, one figure quic...

In her best-seller, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand created a character, probably known to most of the people who read this blog. His name was John Galt. Galt was Rand’s archetypal hero — a self-made, successful man, who resented the “looters” (the mob of union members, the envious,...

Can you imagine a time and place when independent productive achievers begin to be socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments?  A country where there is no encouragement or reward for self-reliance and individual achievement, where individual ownership of private property is...

Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America" “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, t...