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Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Unleashing entrepreneurs good for us all

Here's some great news: The American entrepreneur is flourishing again.

From 1980 until 2017, "the number of new startups formed each year ... plummeted by half - from almost 15% of all business 35 years ago to barely 8%," according to Forbes contributor David Pridham.

In 2015, regrettably, America experienced more business deaths than new business startups - the first time that had happened since the sluggish economy of 1980. 

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