Big government is a far heavier burden to those who start out without privileges and advantages. No one has seen entrepreneurship help minorities improve their economic circumstances more than I have—and that’s not only because I’m 93. I saw the power of entrepreneurship firsthand after co-founding the Home Depot. My experiences led me to ...

The businesses we created help Americans by providing jobs, growth, goods and services. The two of us are quite rich. We have earned more money than we could have imagined and more than we can spend on ourselves, our children and grandchildren. These days getting rich off a profitable business is regarded as almost sinister. But we have nothing ...

As the United States moves past the Great Recession, job growth, underemployment and the labor participation rate continue to hold our country back. How have we overcome these obstacles in the past? Innovation. And it continues to be our best bet for putting Americans back to work.
Companies have always been factories of new ideas
The creation ...

The Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Affordable Care Act last week means that those looking for solutions to their ever-increasing health care premiums now turn their gaze to Congress for solutions.Given that the big health insurers said this spring that they plan to increase premiums by double digits this year, this is for many Americans ...

The law's insurance-company fee will raise premiums and kill at least 146,000 jobs. President Obama's promise that Americans could keep their health insurance if they liked it was the most infamous of the Affordable Care Act's sketchy sales pitches. But many of the law's most damaging aspects are less known, buried in thousands of pages ...

Rather than serve as a cure-all for a broken health care system, Obamacare will be a harbinger of death, says Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. The death of main street, that is.

Rising costs from providing expanded health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act will be too much to bear for mom and pop operations, Marcus told Newsmax TV Thursday at a summit for Job Creators Alliance, a group he established after retiring from Home Depot in 2002. ...

What happens when a federal agency tilts the scale against job creators.

A federal court last month ruled that three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unlawfully appointed by President Obama. The board lacks a quorum yet will carry on as if nothing happened; Chairman Mark Pearce announced that he "disagrees" with the ...