Showing posts with label Washington Examiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington Examiner. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Sales Of George Orwell's 1984 Have Surged 6884% In The Last 24 Hours
In the last 24 hours, sales of the 'big brother' book 1984 on Amazon.com have soared by almost 7000% as the reality of the surveillance state come to the public's attention. As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger notes, we suppose it makes sense that people would want to get up to speed on the dystopian world being constructed rapidly and secretly around them. 1984 is now the 4th fastest rising sales book and 184th most popular on Amazon! Read more >>
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
5 Best & 5 Worst States for Business
It appears CEOs prefer doing business in states run by Republican governors, or so says Chief Executive magazine’s ninth annual “The Best and Worst States for Business” survey.
The survey asked 736 CEOs to grade states on a variety of “competitive metrics that CEOs themselves regard as critical,” including taxation and regulation, quality of workforce, and living environment.
“The tax and regulatory grade includes a measure of how CEOs grade a state’s attitude toward business, a key indicator,” the report write-up notes.
“In the minds of most leaders, a state’s friendliness is closely aligned with its tax and regulatory regime. Similarly, workforce quality also measures the perceived cooperativeness of workers with management, as well as the people’s general work ethic and education attainment,” the write-up reads.
“The living environment metric measures the perceived quality of education and public health facilities, as well as the affordability and quality of real estate, the transportation system and related environmental factors,” it adds.
And although three of the top 10 worst states for business are controlled by Republican governors, the top 10 best states, as noted by the Washington Examiner’s Charlie Spiering, are all run by Republican governors.
Here are the top five best states for business:
The survey asked 736 CEOs to grade states on a variety of “competitive metrics that CEOs themselves regard as critical,” including taxation and regulation, quality of workforce, and living environment.
“The tax and regulatory grade includes a measure of how CEOs grade a state’s attitude toward business, a key indicator,” the report write-up notes.
“In the minds of most leaders, a state’s friendliness is closely aligned with its tax and regulatory regime. Similarly, workforce quality also measures the perceived cooperativeness of workers with management, as well as the people’s general work ethic and education attainment,” the write-up reads.
“The living environment metric measures the perceived quality of education and public health facilities, as well as the affordability and quality of real estate, the transportation system and related environmental factors,” it adds.
And although three of the top 10 worst states for business are controlled by Republican governors, the top 10 best states, as noted by the Washington Examiner’s Charlie Spiering, are all run by Republican governors.
Here are the top five best states for business:
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