Category Archives: taxes

Trump Victory Shakes Businesses ?

Posted on November 11, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Business has nothing to fear from a Trump administration, but maybe some big bureaucracies do. Continue reading →

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Why Trumponics Works

Posted on October 21, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

I’m listening to the Donald talk to a crowd in Fletcher, NC and he’s repeating the usual litany of tax cuts and such to revive American business. I thought I’d take out my economics 101 text and provide a few … Continue reading →

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No on on 205 and 206?

Posted on October 6, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

These are two propositions on the Arizona ballot this November that legalize marijuana sales (although through licensed facilities, which are regulated)…. and raise the state minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from $8.05. All the business press and many of … Continue reading →

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Comebacks

Posted on October 3, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

OK, so Trump lost $900 million plus in 1995, and carried his loss forward. He kept his people working. No big deal. Most people in business have had a bad year, and carried the loss forward. The tax laws are, … Continue reading →

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The Entrepreneur’s Case for Donald Trump

Posted on May 16, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

This is the title of a nice article by Anthony Scaramucci that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on May 16th. We don’t even have any substantive criticism of the article, for a change, other than to add that he … Continue reading →

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Ronald Reagan Trump

Posted on April 27, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

This is supposed to be a business blog, and I’ve been meaning to write one on Trump, since I knew him a little bit at Wharton. The foreign policy speech sounded like it was right out of Reagan’s playbook, other … Continue reading →

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Watch Your 1099 Classifications

Posted on April 1, 2016 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Recently, we attended a talk about independent contractor status, which is a controversial item these days because of Obamacare and the reqirement, if you’re over 25 employees, to have some sort of insurance in place. We also had a chat … Continue reading →

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The High Cost of Saving a Failing Business?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Ya gotta love the Wall Stree Journal. They had a big article on March 26th on the high cost of saving a failing business, by putting it into Chapter 11, which might have amazed some, and scared some with the … Continue reading →

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On Revenue: It’s Ready vs. Not

Posted on January 27, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article this morning about a change in accounting rules on revenue recognition. Big yawn, right? What the article says is that the FASB, the rule making body for accountants, is thinking about (emphasis thinking … Continue reading →

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Don’t Kill the Golden Goose

Posted on January 21, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Well, Obama’s SOTU speech last night was a recycling of all the old liberal hoo-hah that they’ve been peddling for the last 20 years, aside from Clinton, who, after he got clobbered, veered to center right in his second term … Continue reading →

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