“Les Trentes Glorieuses” and The American Dream: A Father – Son Story “Les Trentes Glorieuses” is an expression that refers to the 1945 -1975 period in France following the end of the Second World War. In France as in other European countries such as West Germany, these thirty years were characterized by strong economic …
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Coronavirus Crisis: U.S. States & Local Government Financial Challenges, and Impact on Public Health
State and Local Government Financial Challenges Caused by the Coronavirus Crisis, and Impact on Public Health ETIENNE DEFFARGES The U.S. government has provided a lot of financial relief to American households, small and large businesses, and hospitals to help mitigate the devastating economic and health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The CARES Act totals nearly …
Read More »Advice and Tips for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Many great American entrepreneurs are immigrants. Think about our amazing foreign-born inventors and industrialists Alexander Bell, Nikola Tesla, Leo Baekeland, Andrew Carnegie and Igor Sikorsky, all the way to Sergei Brin, Elon Musk, Pierre Omidyar, Peter Thiel and Jerry Yang today, just to name a few. I have enjoyed this privilege too, in my own …
Read More »The ten-year anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis
A primer on Dodd-Frank, through a simple Q&A Why was Dodd Frank passed? The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed by Congress, and signed by president Obama on July 21st, 2010, to stabilize our banking and financial system, and prevent a repeat of the disastrous 2008 financial crisis, which …
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