Can Obama’s Reform Stimulate Investments and Entrepreneurship?
Just posted over at the Business Catapult Blog:
It’s no secret that IPOs have been at a near-standstill for the past few years. In addition to the growing financial crisis and general gloom, the unintended consequences of the demands for more financial regulation in the wake of Enron, WorldCom and other related advantage-taking in the 90s has been a horrific hurdle to companies that want to raise equity on the open markets.
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As attention shifts in the next administration to fostering the development of more green technologies, a healthy IPO market will be even more critical to inspiring innovation. It should also be noted that the necessary funding and interest in technology based IPOs will have a positive, derivative impact on interest in math and science education in the US, an area in which our deficit is widely acknowledged. While “DEregulation” is typically favored by pro-business constituents, given the severity of the crisis we must pursue short term “REregulation” of this important part of our economy, similar to that seen recently by the banking industry
Lots of tasty links, quotes and data to fill in the gap.
My friend on Orkut shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed at all that I came here.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:40 am