Nathan Lustig

“I think it is important to recognize that General Motors is a canary in this country’s economic coal mine; a forerunner for what’s to come for the broader economy. Their mistakes have resembled this nation’s mistakes; their problems will be our future problems. If the U.S. and General Motors have similar flaws and indeed symbiotic [...]

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Government has done little, or nothing, to address energy independence, social security, a sprawling, complex tax code, healthcare, infrastructure, over crowded prisons, underachieving school and job creation. Instead, government has focused on abortion, illegal drugs, same sex marriage, online sports gambling, online poker, steroids in baseball and short term fixes to America’s major problems.

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Note: This is the second in a series of posts about policy changes that make starting a business easier.  The first post on heath care is here. According to the US Department of Labor, there are a little over 1 million new businesses created in the US each year.   The popular misconception is that 90% fail [...]

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Note: This is the first in a series of posts about policy changes that make starting a business easier It was the winter of 2005, and I was sophomore at the University of Wisconsin.  My business, ExchangeHut, was humming along smoothly and I decided that I wanted to focus on building ExchangeHut sites at additional college [...]

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Live like you Mean It.   That is the new slogan for the state of Wisconsin.  Apparently “America’s Dairyland” was not good enough.  The new slogan cost $50,000 of taxpayer money and it wasn’t even original: Bacardi trademarked it and has used it as a slogan to sell rum.  Motivational speakers use it as book titles, [...]

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The recent stimulus bill focused on creating new jobs, especially in alternative energy startups.  The cost creating these jobs is probably going to be high.  What if there were a way to create good American jobs that did cost anything out of pocket, up front?  I believe that startups are the quickest and easiest way [...]

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