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Inc

Why The Gun Industry’s “Trump Slump” Is Not A Good Thing For Many Small Businesses

(This post originally appeared on Inc) You would think with the election of Donald Trump and a wave of Republican, pro-firearm representatives taking over state…

Gene MarksFebruary 12, 2019

Guardian

How did Netflix get away with not paying income tax in 2018?

(This post originally appeared on The Guardian) Netflix has made a lot of news this past week, and it’s not because of the Ted Bundy documentary or…

Gene MarksFebruary 12, 2019

The Hill

Small-business owners hurt by shutdown must blame themselves

This post originally appeared on The Hill About 10 years ago, my small business almost went out of business. At the time, my firm was…

Gene MarksFebruary 11, 2019

Guardian

Washington hair stylists proved independent contractors can’t be cut

(This post originally appeared on The Guardian) One thing is obvious to anyone who’s ever visited a hair stylist: this is an industry that relies…

Gene MarksFebruary 10, 2019

Inc

This CEO Has A 2,000-Year-Old Trick to Improve Your Cash Flow

(This post originally appeared on Inc.) Thousands of years ago, when Rome was at the zenith of its power, small businesses had the opportunity to sell…

Gene MarksFebruary 7, 2019

Philly.com

Is the Facebook, Google ‘duopoly’ bad for small business?

(This post originally appeared on Philly.com) If you think that Facebook and Google pretty much control the Internet, you’re right — at least when it…

Gene MarksFebruary 5, 2019

Guardian

We shouldn’t declare Trump’s $1tn tax cut a failure just yet

(This post originally appeared on The Guardian) Earlier this week a new report from the National Association for Business Economics said that the 2017 Tax Reform Act…

Gene MarksFebruary 2, 2019

ONLINE AND IN PRINTA past columnist for both The New York Times and The Washington Post, Gene now writes regularly for The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine and The Guardian.