October 25, 2012 | The Oregonian

The end of the PC? Falling microprocessor sales? A global recession? Intel will have none of that talk. The chipmaker filed plans Wednesday to build a mammoth new factory in Hillsboro, committing billions to the future at a time when other companies are hedging.

October 25, 2012 | Washington Post

U.S. companies that rely on venture capital investment to expand their businesses and hire employees have struggled to raise money this year, new data show. The trend came to light in a pair of recent quarterly venture capital reports that used different data to arrive at the same conclusion: Investors aren’t pouring as much money into young companies as they were this time last year.

October 23, 2012 | Epoch Times

Entrepreneurs are in a good place in New York City, a bustling hub where officials and business leaders pride themselves on creating innovative concepts that are ahead of the rest of the nation and the world. Yet propelling a startup company off the ground is not as easy as it may sometimes look. Raising money is difficult. And the stories about companies suddenly getting tens of millions in funds are the exception, not commonplace.

October 29, 2012 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek

For those in favor of immigration reform, it might have been a relief that the presidential candidates spent more time describing how workers overseas are stealing American jobs than they did accusing foreign workers of stealing jobs right here in the U.S.A. But the status quo on immigration apparently supported by the candidates isn’t nearly good enough.

October 27, 2012 | Dissent Magazine

Reagan may not have seen this coming when he first set out to destroy what he saw as the creeping communism of master-planned and state-funded public education. His vision at the time was essentially negative, reactionary. But the conservative project he put in place in California in the 1960s remains with us today. Reagan was the trendsetter in making higher education into a problem to be solved with fee hikes