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Businesses come and go, and fortunately there are always entrepreneurs willing to start up a business — some more successfully than others. (These are large cities where starting a business is...
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As the only country in the world whose constitution enshrines the right to keep and bear arms without restrictions, it’s no surprise the United States is absolutely saturated with guns. The country...
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Despite the attention given to large publicly traded companies and the payouts they provide to investors, small businesses continue to be one of the largest private employer segments in the nation,...
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Cross-border trade is as old as civilization itself, but this commerce has broadened in modern times thanks to world-shrinking innovations in transport and logistics, as well as the expansion of...
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Few things in the corporate world are more captivating to a general audience than a company run by its founder. Elon Musk is a classic example. No matter what you think of the multi-billionaire...
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Rural America is emptying out. According to the Pew Research Center, about half of the country’s rural counties now have lower populations than they did in 2000. Then, the exodus of locals...
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Large companies are disappearing at a much younger age than they used to. According to a study by management consulting firm McKinsey, the average lifespan of a company on the S&P 500 list of the...
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Global trade was hit hard in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, wreaking mayhem on supply chains. While international trade has returned to pre-pandemic levels, pent-up demand for goods and...
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The United States has long prided itself as a melting pot country, and for good reason. According to the United Nations, as of 2015, about one in five of the world’s migrants lived in the U.S. In...
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Millions of American households benefited from federal emergency unemployment programs. These programs offered financial support to workers who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic and its...
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The number of initial public offerings – private companies that offer shares of stock to the public by listing their shares on stock exchanges – rose in U.S. stock markets to a record of 1,058...
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One of the primary measures of innovation is the number of patents someone is granted. For example, Thomas Edison, widely considered to be one of America’s most prolific inventors, held nearly...
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City life has its advantages, from more choices in dining and entertainment to more job opportunities, better public transportation, and more low-cost or free shared public experiences. But urban...
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Following protests and civil unrest nationwide over the police killings of unarmed Black Americans, notably the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, many of the...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a lot of economic and physical hardship to the world. Millions of Americans lost their jobs in the first year of the outbreak alone, and businesses of all kinds...
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