Editor’s Note

The pandemic cost the United States an estimated $16 trillion, and the World Health Organization estimated in May that about 15 million people have died worldwide. The numbers are stunning, aren’t they? Meanwhile, “another pandemic probably will happen in the next 50 years,” Michael Kremer, the University Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: This week, we launch a new reporting project: Deep Dives into Secondary Cities. With support from Armory Square Ventures, we are doing in-depth reporting on entrepreneurship and economic issues that affect cities in Middle America. Our first stop was Pittsburgh. I visited the city in October and found […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: This week, over on Forbes, I wrote about the new boom in cybersecurity services for small business. Insurance rates are way up, even though there’s scant claims data. Next week, we’ll start publishing stories that grew out of my passion for writing about people who are building up […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I report on innovation and the economy in rural places – as I have in Appalachia, Colorado and California – I often hear about something I don’t write much about. The opiod crisis. Entrepreneurs in these communities are often explicitly motivated by the idea of building opportunity […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Banks can do well in a recession as interest rates rise, and one key to injecting growth back into the economy is unlocking some of that capital broadly into the hands of entrepreneurs. I sat in on a Capitol Hill roundtable with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.)about barriers facing […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Important news in the world of small business policy today, including an announcement about reforms to Big Tech governance, and a holdup in the federal program that funds innovation. And, I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be traveling to Pittsburgh in the next few weeks, continuing my coverage […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Welcome to a delayed Times of E newsletter. I’ve been recovering from surgery that slowed me down early this month. More on that in a later newsletter! Here are a few things I worked on during the vacation: An interview with a Midwestern entrepreneur who had a change […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: You would think, from reading the mainstream news coverage, that most entrepreneurs and business executives favor abortion rights. Inc. published a piece that includes Bill Gates and Arlan Hamilton’s shocked and angry Twitter takes on the Roe v. Wade leak. CNBC detailed companies that have taken a stand against the Texas law, […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: I’m up in Syracuse for a talk about The New Builders. There clear signs of a broad rejuvenation in what’s long been seen as a bleak upstate New York economy. Here are four of them: • I’m staying at the Hotel Syracuse, or the Marriott Downtown, opened in 1924 and reopened in […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: The huge shift toward an inflationary economy is a good time to rethink your attitudes about borrowing and investing. My 1980s kitchen badly needs a redo and my house has gone up in value, so I asked my friend Charley Ellis, known as the dean of American financial advisors, whether […]