Business

Obama’s stereotype of all rich people as being “born” into it (hence the lottery analogy) betrays not only willful ignorance, but an irrational hatred of production and success.

Integrity is being trumped by pragmatism, both in business and in politics.

Jobs come from government getting out of the way and letting employers produce goods and services.

Government intervention necessarily begets more intervention.

Is it ethical to fire employees who are on a leave?

Obama did not build Staples, nor any other profit-making company offering value to its customers and employees. Yet he’s the one with life-or-death control over all companies. His moralistic tone of “shame” shows how he really believes it.

If the Kochs’ views were the same as George Soros’, I don’t think anti-capitalists would not complain as much.

The notion that business should sacrifice its self-interest—profit—to some undefinable “collective good” is ludicrous.

There is a moral code that is consistent with long-term profitability of business.

Business is moral because our lives and well-being depend on it, and businesspeople are heroes and moral creators who deserve, not our disdain and criticism, but our thanks.

By appeasing the protestors, the first moral principles the Sainsbury’s manager conceded was the right to liberty.

To argue that foreign takeovers of Canadian companies are of “no net benefit” is nonsensical.

Reducing investors’ incentives to take risks is reducing the jobs their investments are likely to create.

Insider trading is when someone trades with knowledge they have but which others do not. The question is whether this should be a crime.

The moral is the practical—that is the reason why you want to be moral.

Instead of humility that the “you are not that good” remark is trying to admonish, an effective business leader needs to embrace the moral principle of pride: the policy of doing one’s best.

RBC and any other company should be free to outsource as much as they want—because it is moral.

Rubio perpetuates exactly what’s wrong. He assumes, like Obama, that what we have is a mostly free enterprise system. But we don’t.

Right-to-work laws prevent unions from imposing mandatory fees, giving employees the right to work without paying union dues. Otherwise, right-to-work has no effect on collective bargaining. All other negotiations continue as before. What’s wrong with that?

Collective bargaining laws give unions an effective monopoly on many state and local government workforces.[1] They force the government to negotiate employment terms with the union, and all employees must accept that union’s representation. Unions use this power to...

In the long term, we cannot consume more than we produce.

Obama and his wife, call for service to replace the motive of profit. Yet if money and profit are so bad, why do those seeking the trillions in redistributed wealth want it so badly?

Associated Press and FoxNews.com reports: Medical supply giant Stryker is the latest company to announce job cuts in anticipation of coming costs associated with Obamacare, even though the man who inherited a fortune from the company’s founder is a fan. The...