August 2012 Foundry Magazine

Count me as one who is glad to see the subject of “business” emerge as a topic for substantive analysis and discussion this political season. It’s long been one of my peeves that stock prices or unemployment figures, or interest rates or inflation rates, are offered as proof of some economic performance. These details among many others are only momentary indicators of some particular condition. Now, though, in the heat of a presidential election we can have a close look at business, what it is and how it works, what it does and whom it helps....More