Tag: Small business
Who wins and who loses as the US retires the penny
Nancy Forster-Holt, University of Rhode Island
By now, Americans know the strange math of minting: Each penny costs about...
For America’s 35M small businesses, tariff uncertainty hits especially hard
Peter Boumgarden, Washington University in St. Louis and Dilawar Syed, The University of Texas at Austin
Imagine it’s April...
Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...
Small businesses seek to avoid possible credit crunch as Federal Reserve...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University
Small businesses – the heartbeat of the...
Can artisanal weed compete with ‘Big Marijuana’?
Ryan Stoa, Concordia University School of Law
You’ve heard of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco. How about Big Marijuana?
The drug’s growing legalization is raising...
Business owners’ control of their work-life balance is the fine line...
Park Thaichon, Griffith University; Sara Quach, Griffith University, and Scott Weaven, Griffith University
We live in a society in which people are trying to do...
EXPLORING NATURE
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
