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Why It’s Worrying That U.S. Companies Are Getting Older
WSJ ^
| 8/4/14
| Asma Ghribi
Posted on 08/04/2014 4:44:01 PM PDT by Nachum
Edited on 08/04/2014 4:44:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Not only is the American population aging, businesses in the U.S. also are growing older.
Older firms are increasingly controlling the largest market share in different sectors of the economy, according to a paper by the Brooking Institution
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Obamanomics.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:44:01 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:44:49 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Nachum
I think it is worrying as it indicates a lack of entrepreneurship and innovation.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:46:19 PM PDT
by
EBH
(And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
To: EBH
I think it is worrying as it indicates a lack of entrepreneurship and innovation. And it represents the destructive influence of government policy on the same.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:50:36 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Nachum
Beretta started in something like 1526. They’re OK.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:54:05 PM PDT
by
sasquatch
To: Nachum
In before....ah forget it.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:54:46 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: Nachum
It's the power of taxes to destroy younger companies and start ups. It's why big corporations love big government.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:55:02 PM PDT
by
Varda
To: expat_panama
This is kinda interesting. Seems to me the more “smart” regulation we get the more barriers we put up for new businesses.
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:55:07 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Nachum
K Street Lobbying payz off..........
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:58:06 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: sasquatch
1526?? What’d they make?? Catapults, flails and trebuchets?
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posted on
08/04/2014 4:59:13 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I don't just play a bum on TV, I'm also one in real life.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
08/04/2014 5:03:33 PM PDT
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: Nachum
Regulations are meant to keep established companies in business and newbies out.
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posted on
08/04/2014 5:08:10 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: BipolarBob
They made arquebuses, a type of early smooth-bore matchlock used from the 15th through the 17th centuries.
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posted on
08/04/2014 5:09:17 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: BipolarBob
To: BipolarBob
I think it was actually gun powder.
To: EBH; GeronL; Dead Corpse; null and void; HiTech RedNeck
I think it is worrying as it indicates a lack of entrepreneurship and innovation. I believe you're right; however, I am inclined to think these are symptoms rather than causes.
The causes are, I think, a combination of the following:
- Confiscatory taxation — there is little incentive to make when there is no profit in it.
- [De-]Motivation — it used to be that you could start at the bottom and work your way up; this is rapidly becoming untrue [at least in tech].
I think a lot of it has to things like software patents and intellectual property
— one friend I have left Google because they were trying to get him to sign on a new contract that would have made his own years-long research [starting years before they hired him] their intellectual property. (And anything else he produced in his free-time.) - Male-Despising Society (Institutionalized Misandry)
We now live in a society where being male is liability, frowned upon and, if we're honest, despised — this extends to those 'male' attributes like logical-thinking. We can see the disregard here easily in the legal-system where in order to challenge a statute which is on-its-face contrary to the Constitution requires you to violate the statute and thereby implicitly acknowledge its authority, and are forced to the weakened position of the accused. - Cronyism
Why play the game when the rules are changed to favor the special and punish the little guys
?
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posted on
08/04/2014 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
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posted on
08/04/2014 6:31:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Nachum; All
How about we ALL realize that those of us that will thrive, then, now and into the future, are those that understand that we are ALL Free Agents. Always were, always will be.
Needed, salable Skills matter. If you can’t make/create/repair/care for something, you’re useless.
And yes, that includes awesome nunchuck and computer hacking skills. ;)
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posted on
08/04/2014 6:44:30 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: EBH
I think it is worrying as it indicates a lack of entrepreneurship and innovation.”
I used to have a mid-sized company but costs kept increasing so started downsizing to total of two. Impossible to grow beyond a certain point without increasing staff but I make a lot more money than I did when it was larger. Many friends in their early 50’s who absolutely cannot afford not to work have started their own cottage type businesses when they were phased out by the larger corporations.
There are lots of little niches out there to fill. It would be interesting to see exactly how much these types of businesses have increased over the past ten years. It definitely is the era to be creative, at least in this aspect of business.
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posted on
08/04/2014 6:46:23 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Nachum
Thanks Obama, and the Obameconomy.
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posted on
08/04/2014 7:29:00 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
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