Tag Archives: recovery

Obama’s pro-business gambit, and why it will likely fail

By Mark | September 7, 2010

Tomorrow, we’re told, President Obama will propose an economic incentive package indented to help turn the American economy around. From what little I’ve been able to find in the press, it’s sounds like just the kind of thing that the American economy needs. It would not only provide generous tax incentives to companies pursuing research […]

Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, infrastructure, Morning Joe, National Infrastructure Bank, Obama, R&D, Rail, stimulus, tax incentives, the party of no | 8 Comments

Ypsilanti’s Michigan Ladder makes the Wall Street Journal

By Mark | March 15, 2010

Today, the Wall Street Journal’s Neil Hickey published a story about how the commercial credit crisis is impacting small business growth here in the United States. And, to illustrate the real world consequences, he spoke with local Washtenaw County business owners, like Tom Harrison, the CEO of the Michigan Ladder Company. Harrison, when asked how […]

Posted in Economics, Local Business, Media, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bank of Ann Arbor, banking, banking reform, credit crisis, James Haeussler, Michigan Ladder, Neil Hickey, Saline, stimulus, Timothy Marshall, Tom Harrison, Wall Street Journal, Washtenaw County | 3 Comments

Attend an urban gardening potluck, and avoid the cannibal holocaust

By Mark | January 4, 2010

Whenever I start to get a little too optimistic about the future, and I want to regain my foothold in the word of dystopian pessimism, I like to check in with author Jim Kunsler. Jim, for those of you who don’t know him, is the author of such books as The Long Emergency: Surviving the […]